bill lam wrote:
> In linux man pages, the command often have a number in bracket, such
as
> 
> SEE ALSO
> stat(2), login_cap(3), sudoers(5), passwd(5), visudo(8), grep(1),
su(1).

These refer to the "section" of the manual.  I think `man man` should
at least touch on this issue.

For an example of pages with the same name in different sections of
the manual, try:

man -k passed | grep ^passwd

-- 
Raul

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