1.\" Copyright (c) [year] [your name] 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.\" Note: The date here should be updated whenever a non-trivial 28.\" change is made to the manual page. 29.Dd December 8, 1999 30.Dt EXAMPLE 1 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm example 34.Nd "example command manual page" 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36.Nm 37.Op Fl abc 38.Op Fl d Ar argument 39.Ar file 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41This is an example manual page for the 42.Nm 43command. 44It is intended that this example can be used as a template 45when writing a new manual page. 46.Pp 47The options are as follows: 48.Bl -tag -width ".Fl d Ar argument" 49.It Fl a 50Example optional 51.Fl a 52option. 53.It Fl b 54Example optional 55.Fl b 56option. 57.It Fl c 58Example optional 59.Fl c 60option. 61.It Fl d Ar argument 62Example optional 63.Fl d 64option with required argument 65.Ar argument . 66.It Ar file 67Required argument 68.Ar file . 69.El 70.Sh ENVIRONMENT 71The 72.Nm 73command ignores the 74.Ev EXAMPLE 75environment variable. 76.Sh FILES 77.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/null" -compact 78.It Pa /dev/null 79Example of a file in the 80.Sx FILES 81section. 82.El 83.Sh EXAMPLES 84The following is an example of a typical usage 85of the 86.Nm 87command: 88.Pp 89.Dl "example -abc -d xyzzy /dev/null" 90.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 91Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command 92fails for one of the following reasons: 93.Bl -diag 94.It "example error message" 95An example of an error message. 96.It "another example error message." 97Self explanatory. 98.El 99.Sh COMPATIBILITY 100The 101.Nm 102command has no known compatibility issues. 103.Sh SEE ALSO 104.Xr example 3 , 105.Xr example 4 , 106.Xr mdoc 7 107.Rs 108.%A "A. B. Author" 109.%T "Example RFC Title" 110.%O RFC0000 111.Re 112.Rs 113.%A "A. B. Author" 114.%B "Example Book Title" 115.%O ISBN-0-000-00000-0 116.Re 117.Rs 118.%A "A. B. Author" 119.%D "January 1997" 120.%J "Example Journal Name" 121.%T "Example Article Title" 122.Re 123.Sh STANDARDS 124If the command conforms to some standard, such as 125.St -p1003.2 126or 127.St -isoC , 128it should be noted here. 129.Sh HISTORY 130The 131.Nm 132manual page example first appeared in 133.Fx 2.2 . 134.Pp 135Some other common 136.Sx HISTORY 137section examples are: 138.Pp 139The 140.Nm 141manual page example first appeared in 142.Bx 4.4 . 143.Pp 144The 145.Nm 146manual page example first appeared in 147.At v6 . 148.Sh AUTHORS 149This 150manual page was written by 151.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org . 152.Sh BUGS 153The actual code for this command is vaporware. 154