Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:13:01 -0800
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3 simple bsd questions (man, ~ and moused)
Message-ID:  <20000127111301.B58910@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001271645030.50934-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:52:01PM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001271645030.50934-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:52:01PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> 1.  What is the man command that explains man commands, i.e. what (1),
> (2), etc. are in the manual?  I saw it somewhere, now i can't find it.

I've seen suggestions of "man man" but if it has this information,
I missed it.  But if you do "man 1 intro" you'll get a description
of what section 1 is all about, and you can do this for each section
you're interested in.

Here's my quick summary; I can type it faster than I can find
it anywhere...

(1) General commands
(2) System calls
(3) Library functions
(4) Device drivers
(5) File formats
(6) Games
(7) Miscellany
(8) System adminstration commands
(9) Kernel internals

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * intellect. -J.R. Mashey


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000127111301.B58910>