Going (backwards) through the email backlog after 10 days on the farm, found:
On 08.08.13 14:18, propcoder wrote: > 5. I am lost in LinuxCNC documentation. I have PDFs, links to man and > man9 (don't know what "9" means), links to devel and some devel9 docs. > And there is man command I can use.. I didn't see any answer to that part in any of the replies, so here goes. If you try: $ man man It outlines the 9 manpage sections, and "9" means: 9 Kernel routines [Non standard] An example of where you'd use that number (apologies for it not being a LinuxCNC example) is: $ man -k regex fail2ban-regex (1) - test Fail2ban "failregex" option grepdiff (1) - show files modified by a diff containing a regex re_comp (3) - BSD regex functions re_exec (3) - BSD regex functions regcomp (3) - POSIX regex functions regerror (3) - POSIX regex functions regex (3) - POSIX regex functions regex (7) - POSIX.2 regular expressions regexec (3) - POSIX regex functions regexp_table (5) - format of Postfix regular expression tables regfree (3) - POSIX regex functions XML::LibXML::RegExp (3pm) - XML::LibXML::RegExp - interface to libxml2 regular expressions The number in braces is the section number of the manpage, and we see that "regex" has two manpages, in sections 3 and 7. Just typing "man regex" gives the section 3 manpage, i.e. the 'C' library one, so if we want the other (general) one, we need to use: $ man 7 regex Or "man -a regex", but then you get both, with the wrong one first. Rather than worry about sections, last time I wanted a HAL manpage, I used: $ man -k hal | grep -v gnome # Get rid of extraneous "gnome" guff. Then grubbed through the resulting list. Does that help at all? Erik -- If you're going through hell, keep going! - Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
