[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

Clinton Roy croy at dstc.edu.au
Wed Sep 24 20:14:58 EDT 2003


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Trent WADDINGTON <s337240 at student.uq.edu.au> writes:

>> 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?
man -s 1 passwd
man -s 5 passwd

cheers,
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Clinton Roy
Elvin Software Engineer - elvin.dstc.edu.au
Humbug Vice president   - www.humbug.org.au

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