Try man 1 intro
man 2 intro
man 3 intro
....
man 7 intro
man 8 intro
Regards
Andy
On Tuesday 23 December 2014 08:52:42 Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 12/23/2014 08:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > FWIW, "man man" does tell one the purpose of each of the sections.
>
> 1 Executable programs or shell commands
> 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
> 3 Library calls (functions within program libraries)
> 4 Special files (usually found in /dev)
> 5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
> 6 Games
> 7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and
> conventions), e.g.
> man(7), groff(7)
> 8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
> 9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
>
> see again I get confused...
>
> man 7 groff
> No manual entry for groff in section 7
>
> GROFF(1) General Commands Manual
> GROFF(1)
>
> NAME
> groff - front-end for the groff document formatting system
>
> so 7 miscellaneous does not include groff(7).. or am I misreading it...
>
> and just for grins, try
> man awk... 2032 lines... and the example shows:
> EXAMPLES
> Print and sort the login names of all users:
>
> BEGIN { FS = ":" }
> { print $1 | "sort" }
>
> um, so, how does awk work there??
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