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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:

  1. general user commands and utilities
  2. system calls
  3. C functions and libraries
  4. devices and drivers
  5. file formats
  6. games
  7. misc.
  8. system maintenance and operation commands
  9. kernel interfaces

The standard notation is command(sec#), as in ls(1), which means "command ls, in section 1".


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