From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 11:14:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3BD155C8 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA59550; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:13:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:13:01 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 simple bsd questions (man, ~ and moused) Message-ID: <20000127111301.B58910@wopr.caltech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:52:01PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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