How to use the man command to navigate to specific sections of the manual?

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I would like to know if there are easier ways to navigate to specific sections of manual pages such as Examples or Options

I currently resort to piping man to regex find and retrieve statements.

For example to find the entry for the -f option in the grep manual I use this statement:

man grep | grep -A 2 -e '-f'

Is there a better way to use man? I've been able to find scant info on the -S option but perhaps I'm going down the wrong rabbit hole.

Strongly related: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/96231/117549 — Jeff Schaller, Oct 12 '17 at 19:00
Look at here: Tricks and tips for finding information in man pages. The answer to your question specifically: The default pager for reading a man page is less... — MiniMax, Oct 12 '17 at 19:02
thanks for the results guys, these didn't come up in my search for some reason — Micks Ketches, Oct 12 '17 at 19:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '17 at 20:58

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I usually use
/<search pattern>
after opening a specific man page

As MiniMax mentioned the pager is less by default.

answered Oct 12 '17 at 20:58

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