diff --git a/man3/fmtmsg.3 b/man3/fmtmsg.3
index 1d99b2623..235a6ada9 100644
--- a/man3/fmtmsg.3
+++ b/man3/fmtmsg.3
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ main(void)
     err = fmtmsg(class, "util-linux:mount", MM_ERROR,
                 "unknown mount option", "See mount(8).",
                 "util-linux:mount:017");
-    switch(err) {
+    switch (err) {
     case MM_OK:
         break;
     case MM_NOTOK:
diff --git a/man3/getgrouplist.3 b/man3/getgrouplist.3
index 118b9cce9..ce963f2b7 100644
--- a/man3/getgrouplist.3
+++ b/man3/getgrouplist.3
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ main(void)
         getgrouplist(user, pw->pw_gid, groups, &ng);
     }
 
-    for(i = 0; i < ng; i++)
+    for (i = 0; i < ng; i++)
         printf("%d\en", groups[i]);
 
     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
diff --git a/man3/getsubopt.3 b/man3/getsubopt.3
index ebe1466ab..2c51cbef1 100644
--- a/man3/getsubopt.3
+++ b/man3/getsubopt.3
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     int errfnd = 0;
 
     while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "o:")) != -1) {
-        switch(opt) {
+        switch (opt) {
         case 'o':
             subopts = optarg;
             while (*subopts != '\\0' && !errfnd) {
diff --git a/man3/scandir.3 b/man3/scandir.3
index 9a350adf8..99c9fa353 100644
--- a/man3/scandir.3
+++ b/man3/scandir.3
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ main(void)
     if (n < 0)
         perror("scandir");
     else {
-        while(n\-\-) {
+        while (n\-\-) {
             printf("%s\en", namelist[n]\->d_name);
             free(namelist[n]);
         }
diff --git a/man3/stdarg.3 b/man3/stdarg.3
index e2adff676..4cec3d3c4 100644
--- a/man3/stdarg.3
+++ b/man3/stdarg.3
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ foo(va_alist)
     va_list ap;
 
     va_start(ap);
-    while(...) {
+    while (...) {
         ...
         x = va_arg(ap, type);
         ...
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ foo(char *fmt, ...)
 
     va_start(ap, fmt);
     while (*fmt)
-        switch(*fmt++) {
+        switch (*fmt++) {
         case 's':              /* string */
             s = va_arg(ap, char *);
             printf("string %s\en", s);
diff --git a/man3/strcat.3 b/man3/strcat.3
index a33e524d3..992955214 100644
--- a/man3/strcat.3
+++ b/man3/strcat.3
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ strncat(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n)
     size_t dest_len = strlen(dest);
     int i;
 
-    for(i = 0 ; i < n && src[i] != '\\0' ; i++)
+    for (i = 0 ; i < n && src[i] != '\\0' ; i++)
         dest[dest_len + i] = src[i];
     dest[dest_len + i] = '\\0';
 
diff --git a/man3/strcpy.3 b/man3/strcpy.3
index 6e258d782..3f0b45f4b 100644
--- a/man3/strcpy.3
+++ b/man3/strcpy.3
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ char*
 strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n){
     size_t i;
 
-    for(i = 0 ; i < n && src[i] != '\\0' ; i++)
+    for (i = 0 ; i < n && src[i] != '\\0' ; i++)
         dest[i] = src[i];
-    for( ; i < n ; i++)
+    for ( ; i < n ; i++)
         dest[i] = '\\0';
 
     return dest;
diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3
index 8ac4f7631..aabd332e6 100644
--- a/man3/system.3
+++ b/man3/system.3
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ E.g.
 .br
 .nf
 
-    while(something) {
+    while (something) {
         int ret = system("foo");
 
         if (WIFSIGNALED(ret) &&
diff --git a/man3/tsearch.3 b/man3/tsearch.3
index a3cdc13ba..f965df08e 100644
--- a/man3/tsearch.3
+++ b/man3/tsearch.3
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ action(const void *nodep, const VISIT which, const int depth)
 {
     int *datap;
 
-    switch(which) {
+    switch (which) {
     case preorder:
         break;
     case postorder:
diff --git a/man7/epoll.7 b/man7/epoll.7
index e965e1386..6931d910a 100644
--- a/man7/epoll.7
+++ b/man7/epoll.7
@@ -184,14 +184,14 @@ from where it stopped before.
 .nf
 struct epoll_event ev, *events;
 
-for(;;) {
+for (;;) {
     nfds = epoll_wait(kdpfd, events, maxevents, \-1);
 
     for (n = 0; n < nfds; ++n) {
         if (events[n].data.fd == listener) {
             client = accept(listener, (struct sockaddr *) &local,
                             &addrlen);
-            if(client < 0){
+            if (client < 0){
                 perror("accept");
                 continue;
             }