The Unix manual consists of eight sections, and each man page has its command name followed by the section number in parenthesis. Note that if you are a user, you will be using the commands in section 1.
Section # | Topic |
---|---|
1 | Commands available to users |
2 | Unix and C system calls |
3 | C library routines for C programs |
4 | Special file names |
5 | File formats and conventions for files used by Unix |
6 | Games |
7 | Word processing packages |
8 | System administration commands and procedures |