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4.4. The manuals
Every UNIX system has online a complete set of documentation available
with the command man
. Type man man
for more help on man :-)
There are 9 manual sections:
- general user commands and utilities
- system calls
- C functions and libraries
- devices and drivers
- file formats
- games
- misc.
- system maintenance and operation commands
- kernel interfaces
The standard notation is command(sec#)
, as in ls(1)
, which means
"command ls, in section 1".
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