1.\" Copyright (c) [year] 2.\" [you name here]. 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.\" 3. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY [you name] AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" 29.\" Note: The date here should be updated whenever a non-trivial 30.\" change is made to the manual page. 31.Dd January 8, 1997 32.Dt EXAMPLE 1 33.\" Note: Only specify the operating system when the command 34.\" is FreeBSD specific, otherwise use the .Os macro with no 35.\" arguments. 36.Os FreeBSD 3.0 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm example 39.Nd example command manual page 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm example 42.Op Fl abc 43.Op Fl d Ar argument 44.Ar file 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46This is an example manual page for 47the 48.Nm 49command. It is intended 50that this example can be used as a template when writing 51a new manual page. 52.Pp 53The options are as follows: 54has several options: 55.Bl -tag -width Fl 56.It Fl a 57Example optional 58.Fl a 59option. 60.It Fl b 61Example optional 62.Fl b 63option. 64.It Fl c 65Example optional 66.Fl c 67option. 68.It Fl d Ar argument 69Example optional 70.Fl d 71option with required argument 72.Ar argument . 73.It Ar file 74Required argument 75.Ar file . 76.El 77.Sh ENVIRONMENT 78The 79.Nm 80command ignores the 81.Ev EXAMPLE 82environment variable. 83.Sh FILES 84.Bl -tag -width /dev/null -compact 85.It Pa /dev/null 86Example of a file in the 87.Sx FILES 88section. 89.El 90.Sh EXAMPLES 91The following is an example of a typical usage 92of the 93.Nm 94command: 95.Pp 96.Dl % example -abc -d xyzzy /dev/null 97.Sh SEE ALSO 98.Xr example 3 , 99.Xr example 4 , 100.Xr mdoc 7 , 101.Xr mdoc.samples 7 102.Rs 103.%A A. B. Author 104.%T Example RFC Title 105.%O RFC0000 106.Re 107.Rs 108.%A A. B. Author 109.%B Example Book Title 110.%O ISBN-0-000-00000-0 111.Re 112.Rs 113.%A A. B. Author 114.%D January 1997 115.%J Example Journal Name 116.%T Example Article Title 117.Re 118.Sh STANDARDS 119If the command conforms to some standard, such as 120.St -p1003.2 121or 122.St -ansiC , 123it should be noted here. 124.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 125Exist status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command 126fails for one of the following reasons 127.Bl -diag 128.It example error message 129An example of an error message. 130.It another example error message. 131Self explanatory. 132.El 133.Sh HISTORY 134The 135.Nm 136manual page example first appeared in 137.Fx 3.0 . 138.Pp 139Some other common 140.Sx HISTORY 141section examples are: 142.Pp 143The 144.Nm 145manual page example first appeared in 146.Bx 4.4 . 147.Pp 148The 149.Nm 150manual page example first appeared in 151.At v6 . 152.Sh AUTHOR 153This 154manual page was written by Mike Pritchard 155.Aq mpp@FreeBSD.ORG . 156.Sh BUGS 157The actual code for this command is vaporware. 158