[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-09-25, Trent WADDINGTON wrote:
> 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?

The obvious answer is "man man" -- which will tell you, for the
system on which you typed it, how to use that implementation of
man(1).

And, while I'm here, *everybody* should read the man(1) man page
and any others it references on their system.

Cheers, Greg

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