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man

man shows system manual pages.

There are 8 different sections to man:

  • 1 → programs (grep, ls)
  • 2 → System calls (sendfile, ptrace)
  • 3 → C functions (printf, fopen)
  • 4 → devices (null, tty)
  • 5 → file fomats (sudoers, proc, ext4, elf, fstab)
  • 6 → games (sl)
  • 7 → misc (concepts, ex: pipe, symlink)
  • 8 → sysadmin (apt, chroot)

At /usr/share/man/man2 you can view every manpage for that section.

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