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Using Unix Online Manual Pages |
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| Getting Started
For more information on the man command itself, type
Help Finding Command Names If you are not sure of a command name, or if man tells you No manual entry for xxxxx (where xxxxx is the name of a command you thought existed), you can try a different form of the man command. When you use the keyword option -k, it will attempt to locate any manual page that has the given keywords in its header. For example, to inquire about commands that relate to terminals, type
Your screen will list manual page titles that have the word terminal in their header. It will look something like this:
Numbers in parentheses after each command name refer to the manual section where the manual page is stored.
To Print man Pages If you would like a hardcopy
printout of a manual page, type the command:
Organization of man Pages Unix manual pages are logically divided into eight sections, numbered 1 - 8. In addition, individual Unix machines may have their own sections. For example, at ITS we have a section labeled local that contains manual pages developed and installed on ITS Unix machines. Although you don't need to know which section a particular man page is in to access it, here are the topics contained in each section.
Occasionally two different manual pages will have the same name and exist in two different sections. An example is chown, the Unix command that changes the ownership of a file to a different user. There is a command that you can type from the command line, chown (1), and a system call you use from within a program, chown (2). To request a manual page from a specific section, type the section number before the command name. For example, to read about chown as a system call, type
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