On March 21, 2003 10:58 pm, nate wrote:
> usually 3rd party contributions to a software program.
>
> > grep(1) ... What does the number (1) mean?
>
> the section of the manual (man) that the command is located.
> sometimes there are multiple manpages in different sections,
> so often the section is mentioned.
just to clarify here ('cause it used to confuse me). to access different
secitons of a man page use the following:
man <section#> manual
ie:
man 1 grep
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