Let's learn a few commands that are required very often, such as man, echo, cat, and similar:
- Enter the following command. It will show the various types of manual pages displayed by the man command:
$ man man
- From the following table, you can get an idea about various types of man pages for the same command:
|
Section number |
Subject area |
|
1 |
User commands |
|
2 |
System calls |
|
3 |
Library calls |
|
4 |
Special files |
|
5 |
File formats |
|
6 |
Games |
|
7 |
Miscellaneous |
|
8 |
System admin |
|
9 |
Kernel routines |
- We can enter the man command to display the corresponding manual pages as follows:
$ man 1 command
$ man 5 command
- Suppose we need to know more ...
