How do you view a man page you just created?

Question

Suppose I have a man page, which I just wrote and passed through nroff -man, called command.1

How do I view it with man now? I lo

Answer 1

Put the command.1 man page in a new folder called man1. Then, assuming you're in the folder containing the new man1 folder, call the man command like this:

man -M . command

Replace the dot by the path to the folder containing the man1 folder if you're located elsewhere.