Datasheet

SYNOPSIS
find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f pathname] [pathname ...] expression
...
The preceding command displays the first man page found for the find command.
As you saw in the earlier example, some terms have multiple man pages. For example,
there is a man page for the
crontab command and one for the crontab files. Man
pages are organized into sections, as shown in Table 1-3.
Table 1-3: man Page Sections
The following code shows some other examples of useful options with the man
command.
$ man -a mount Shows all man pages related to component
$ man 5 crontab Shows section 5 man page for component
$ man mount -P more Use more, not less to page through
$ man -f mount Same as the whatis command
$ man -k mount Same as the apropos command
Man pages are also available on the Internet. Here are some nice sites for finding
BSD man pages:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?++NetBSD-current
Section Description
1 General user commands
2 System calls
3 Programming routines / library functions
4 Devices
5 Configuration files and file formats
6 Games
7 Miscellaneous
8 Administrative commands and daemons
9 Kernel Interface
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