Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
unix manual page
(Or "man page") A part of
Unix
's
extensive on-line documentation. To read a manual page, type
man [-s
]
at a shell prompt, e.g. "man ftp" (the section number can
usually be omitted). Pages are traditionally referred to
using the notation "page(section)", e.g. ftp(1).
Under
SunOS
(which is fairly typical), Section 1 covers
commands, 2 system calls, 3 C library routines, 4 devices
and networks, 5 file formats, 6 games and demos, 7
miscellaneous, 8 system administration. Each section has an
introduction which can be obtained with, e.g., "man 2 intro".
Manual pages are stored as
nroff
source files. Formatted
versions are also usually cached.
Unix manual page
: man(1).
A Linux man gateway
http://foldoc.org/man.cgi
.
A Solaris man gateway
http://medsch.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/pdm/man.pl
.
(2000-03-13)
