On 23:22 21 Mar 2003, gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| 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
In the same vein, section
1 is commands
2 is system calls (kernel API)
3 is library calls
4 is special files (devices, usually in /dev)
5 is file formats
6 is games
7 is conventions and miscellany
8 is administrative commands
See "man 1 intro", "man 2 intro" and so forth.
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