[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

[Trent WADDINGTON]

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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:

> 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
>

Something I always forget: how do you do this on Solaris?

Trent

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