How to use grep to search for options in a man page? [duplicate]

I want to search for specific options like -s, -f, -l in a manpage and display only the results that contain info on what those options do. I tried this command hoping that the single quotes would bypass grep from receiving options:

man --pager=cat some_man_page_here | grep '-option_here'

I also tried \ but grep gives me a syntax error:

Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERNS [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.

I just wanna know if there's a way to use grep to search for options in manpages. I'm currently using the Find button on the terminal top bar but I'd like to be able to use grep for efficiency.

Would this work in your case?

$ man ls | grep -- '--a'
     -a, --all
     -A, --almost-all
     --author

A more detailed (hopefully clearer) example of the command:

$ man shutdown | grep -- '-'
       shutdown - Halt, power-off or reboot the machine
       shutdown may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine.
       logged-in users before going down.
       --help
       -H, --halt
       -P, --poweroff
           Power-off the machine (the default).
       -r, --reboot
       -h
           Equivalent to --poweroff, unless --halt is specified.
       -k
           Do not halt, power-off, reboot, just write wall message.
       --no-wall
           Do not send wall message before halt, power-off, reboot.
       -c
       On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

Edit:

As glenn jackman commented below (very useful):

And to narrow down the results to just lines starting with a hyphen:

grep '^[[:space:]]*-' – 

Test run:

$ man shutdown | grep -- '-' | grep '^[[:space:]]*-'
       --help
       -H, --halt
       -P, --poweroff
       -r, --reboot
       -h
       -k

One could obviously also use apropos in Linux.

[+] External Links:

Full-text search for man pages - At Unix SE

working with a simple function to return only the specific part related to the command's switches and their followed short-description in addition, from their man-pages directly:

sman() {
    man "${1}" \
    | grep -iozP -- "(?s)\n+\s+\K\Q${2}\E.*?\n*(?=\n+\s+-)"
}

Call it sman <command-name> <switch> like: sman ls -A

-a, --all
              do not ignore entries starting with .
 -A, --almost-all
              do not list implied . and ..

Explanations (from https://regex101.com/):

• -i — enable case-insensitive match
• -o — return only matched part
• -z — Treat input and output data as sequences of lines, each terminated by a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of a newline.
• -P — enables PCRE

• (?s) match the remainder of the pattern with the following effective flags: s
  ^{s modifier} — single line. Dot matches newline characters
• \n+ matches a line-feed (newline) character
  ^{+ Quantifier} — Matches between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
• \s+ matches any whitespace character
  
• \K resets the starting point of the reported match. Any previously consumed characters are no longer included in the final match
• \Q${2}\E Quoted Literals — matches the expanded $2 characters literally
• .*? matches any character
  ^{*? Quantifier} — Matches between zero and unlimited times, as few times as possible, expanding as needed (lazy)
• \n* matches a line-feed (newline) character
  ^{* Quantifier} — Matches between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
• (?=\n+\s+-) Positive Lookahead: Assert that the Regex below matches:
  \n+ matches a line-feed (newline) character.
  \s+ matches any whitespace character
  - matches the character - literally.