[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

Sarah Walters sarah at uow.edu.au
Wed Sep 24 20:27:07 EDT 2003


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On 25 Sep 2003 Trent WADDINGTON <s337240 at student.uq.edu.au> 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?

The exact same way.

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