Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 13:16:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com> To: toneil@visigenic.com (Tim Oneil) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question! Message-ID: <199705271816.NAA18131@d2si.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970527102121.00964af0@visigenic.com> from Tim Oneil at "May 27, 97 10:21:21 am"
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> Zahemszky wrote:
> >Try mtree(8), with the files in /etc/mtree.
>
> Heres a stupid, non-mission critical question
> if you don't mind: what exactly does the number
> in parens following a command mean? Version, something
> like that?
>
> -Tim
The number refers to the section of the UNIX manual. Section 8 is for
system administration, section 1 is for user comamnds, etc. You use
the section number to differentiate between two commands with the same
name--for example, try
man chmod
man 1 chmod
man 2 chmod
The first two give you the same page but the third gives you a
completely different page. That's all.
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