[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

[Sarah Walters]

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On 25 Sep 2003 Ewan Edwards <Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com> wrote:
> > > What do the numbers represent and how do I get the man interfaces(1)
> >
> > The numbers represent the section of the manual that the commands are in.
> > See man man(1) for the list of manual sections.  If you want to reach a
> > command in a certain part of the manual, put it before the command you are
> > querying, eg:
> >
> > man 1 passwd
> > man 5 passwd
> 
> And if, like me until a few minutes ago, you have no idea what this "manual 
> sections" thing is all about, try this;
> 
> man 7 man

Actually, this appears to be system dependent. On Solaris 9 I find man 
in sections 1 (main page) and 5 (man macros) only. On FreeBSD I only 
find man in section 1. I don't have a linux machine accessible at the 
moment, or I'd look there too.

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Mrs Sarah Walters
Systems Group
Information Technology Services
University of Wollongong
Phone: +61 2 4221 3775


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