man page question

pjbii · 05-26-2005, 02:47 PM

Ok, now this may be a stupid question or one that I should already know, anyway, here it is cos this has been bugging me for some time.

when you see reference to a command, such as mount(8), tunefs(8), find(1), etc.

what does the number in the parenthesis refer to?

Thanks in advance

juanbobo · 05-26-2005, 02:54 PM

This site has what each number represents...

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi

pjbii · 05-26-2005, 03:00 PM

Thank you very much for the link, that answers my question and what a fast reply!!

Thanks again

pjbii

michaelsanford · 05-27-2005, 11:07 AM

Yeah, the first time I took a linux certification exam they asked a similar question, like "What section will the ls manpage be in" or something.

I knew it /had/ sections but I was wowefully oblivious to their actual meanings.

Incidentally if you start up xman you can browse by section.

keefaz · 05-27-2005, 12:33 PM

funny, in games section there is a man page for the wtf command...
I didn't know this command exist

michaelsanford · 05-27-2005, 02:48 PM

It's great eh.

Code:

root@gateway:~# wtf is love
Gee...  I don't know what love means...