On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:41 +0000, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:09 +0000, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation of the use of - in the su command. > > I checked the man pages for su, (why did you put su(1)), and found the > > Because the man pages have traditionally been organised into several > sections. The number in parentheses indicates the section of the manual > that the page is in (this is important since for e.g. there are library > calls that have the same name as commands, e.g. /usr/bin/printf is > documented in printf(1) but the printf call in the stdio library is > documented in printf(3)). > > The conventional man sections are: > > 1 User Commands > > 2 System Calls > > 3 C Library Functions > > 4 Devices and Special Files > > 5 File Formats and Conventions > > 6 Games et. Al. > > 7 Miscellanea > > 8 System Administration tools and Deamons > > See "man man" for more information. Doh. Forgot to mention that to select a section you just put the number as the first argument to man. E.g: $ man 1 printf -> /usr/bin/printf's man page $ man 3 printf -> printf() call in stdio.h's man page Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
