Unix manual page
Unix manual page
(operating system)man [-s
at a shell prompt, e.g. "man ftp" (the section number canusually be omitted). Pages are traditionally referred tousing the notation "page(section)", e.g. ftp(1).
Under SunOS (which is fairly typical), Section 1 coverscommands, 2 system calls, 3 C library routines, 4 devicesand networks, 5 file formats, 6 games and demos, 7miscellaneous, 8 system administration. Each section has anintroduction which can be obtained with, e.g., "man 2 intro".
Manual pages are stored as nroff source files. Formattedversions are also usually cached.
Unix manual page: man(1).
A Linux man gateway.
A Solaris man gateway.