[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

[Sarah Walters]

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On 25 Sep 2003 Clinton Roy <croy at dstc.edu.au> wrote:
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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

Oops ... one day I will remember that *everything* is customised around
here - even man and cd. I'm so accustomed to the way things are done
on our cluster that I would probably be lost on a standalone Solaris 
box. Sorry for any confusion.

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


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