On 23Dec2014 08:52, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@xxxxxxxxx> 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 is a command. These are in sections 1, 6 and 8 (commands, games, admin
commands).
so 7 miscellaneous does not include groff(7).. or am I misreading it...
7 is for stuff that more or less doesn't fit in the other categories.
and just for grins, try
man awk... 2032 lines... and the example shows:
You're complaining that awk has documentation?
EXAMPLES
Print and sort the login names of all users:
BEGIN { FS = ":" }
{ print $1 | "sort" }
um, so, how does awk work there??
That is an example awk program. I would expect to feed it the /etc/passwd file
as input.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
It's hard to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends
on him not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
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