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When someone says to you "man 6 tetris" he means that you should read the tetris manpage in section 6 of the manpages. Sometimes the same name | When someone says to you "man 6 tetris" he means that you should read the tetris manpage in section 6 of the manpages. Sometimes the same manpage name exists, but in different sections. One example is the fstat manpage it exists in sections 1 and 2. To see the manpage for fstat in section 2 you would type | ||
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Revision as of 08:05, 6 October 2005
Most UNIX systems have online manual pages. The types of manpages have sections which they are grouped in. Here is the layout of BSD:
section 1
general commands (tools and utilities)
section 2
system calls and error numbers
section 3
the C libraries
section 4
special files and hardware support
section 5
file formats
section 6
the games
section 7
miscellaneous information pages
section 8
system maintenance and operation commands
section 9
kernel internals
When someone says to you "man 6 tetris" he means that you should read the tetris manpage in section 6 of the manpages. Sometimes the same manpage name exists, but in different sections. One example is the fstat manpage it exists in sections 1 and 2. To see the manpage for fstat in section 2 you would type
$ man 2 fstat
