Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:09:56 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Off-topic: Conventions for FreeBSD manual pages Message-ID: <20220420110956.7a9d64d6@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20220420093602.f38f97abc138c133d37e4166@sohara.org> References: <3755196b-8803-ff72-364e-6b3b067f9702@gmail.com> <c9284898-d06a-a629-e324-1bb25178a6dd@aetern.org> <921cc7c2d2ce7811c7df5dec04fb0e357fc354fd.camel@riseup.net> <20220420093602.f38f97abc138c133d37e4166@sohara.org>
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:36:02 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:26:40 +0200
>Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> The OP is missing a description of a man page's structure as given by
>> the Linux "man man-pages". However, the manual sections are provided
>> by FreeBSD's "man man", too. =20
>
> Linux (at least Mate) also has man man, interestingly with a
>history section indicating it was written in 1990. I'm pretty sure the
>XENIX systems I used in the mid 1980s also had man man - until the
>manpages were printed and removed to make space for applications,
>discs were small in those days.
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ man man | grep HISTORY -A10
HISTORY
1990, 1991 =E2=80=93 Originally written by John W. Eaton (jwe@che.ut=
exas.edu).
Dec 23 1992: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) applied bug fixes supplied=
by Willem Kasdorp (wkasdo@nikhefk.nikef.nl).
30th April 1994 =E2=80=93 23rd February 2000: Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.su=
rrey.ac.uk) has been developing and maintaining this package with the help =
of a few dedicated people.
30th October 1996 =E2=80=93 30th March 2001: Fabrizio Polacco <fpola=
cco@debian.org> maintained and enhanced this package for the Debian project=
, with the help of all the community.
31st March 2001 =E2=80=93 present day: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian=
.org> is now developing and maintaining man-db.
Apropos Colin Watson and Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mate vs other Linux
related to _manual sections"_:
In 2015...
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:23:37 +0100
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: renaming files
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 09:58:02PM +0200, silver.bullet@zoho.com
wrote:
> Another useful command could be
>=20
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ man rename | grep EXAMPLES -A10 =20
It is worth noting that Ubuntu ships a different version of rename
from that shipped by Arch. It's still definitely a useful
programmable tool for this kind of job, but in this case it's more
important than usual to consult Ubuntu's documentation when advising
Ubuntu users.
...today
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# lsb_release -d; man rename | tail -1
Description: Arch Linux
util-linux 2.38 2022-02-17 RENAME(1)
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio lsb_releas=
e -d; systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio -P man rename | tail -1
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS
perl v5.20.2 2015-06-05 RENAME(1p)
I didn't know that a section "1" and a section "1p" does exist.
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