https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193460
Bug ID: 193460
Summary: Suggestion: add a section resume in man manpage
Product: Documentation
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: Needs Triage
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: Documentation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Maybe it is a bit silly, but I recently needed some kind of "official
reference" on manpage sections in FreeBSD and realized that no manpage provided
it. The best I could come up with was to do `for i in {1..9}; do man $i
intro|head -n1; done`.
Would it be considered useful to add such a list in the DESCRIPTION part of
man(1)? Maybe reformat the beginning to something like:
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DESCRIPTION
The man utility finds and displays online manual documentation pages. If
mansect is provided, man restricts the search to the specific section of
the manual.
The currently available sections are:
1 general commands (tools and utilities)
2 system calls and error numbers
3 C libraries
4 devices and device drivers
5 file formats
6 games
7 miscellaneous
8 system maintenance procedures and commands
9 system kernel interfaces
Options that man understands:
[...]
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(of course, feel free to reword as needed)
thanks for your time
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