On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:57:28PM +1300, Mark Carey wrote:
> OT.
> I never knew you could get man 5 to cat a file.

from man(1):

       man  ...<more options>...  [[section] page ...] ...


'5' is section:  man 5 hosts.allow is:

HOSTS_ACCESS(5)

NAME
       hosts_access - format of host access control files
...etc.


mjb@toolbox:~> ls -l /usr/share/man/man5/hosts.allow.5.gz    
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Sep 13 12:13 
/usr/share/man/man5/hosts.allow.5.gz -> hosts_access.5.gz

Mike.
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