On 12/23/2014 10:10 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 12/23/2014 08:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> FWIW, "man man" does tell one the purpose of each of the sections.
> 1 Executable programs or shell commands
> 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
> 3 Library calls (functions within program libraries)
> 4 Special files (usually found in /dev)
> 5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
> 6 Games
> 7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and
> conventions), e.g.
> man(7), groff(7)
> 8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
> 9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
>
> see again I get confused...
>
> man 7 groff
> No manual entry for groff in section 7
As someone else noted, it's most likely that either you don't have all
the man pages installed, or you don't have all the programs
installed. For me, for instance, "man 7 groff" brings up a man page
for me in both CentOS 6.6 and Fedora 21.
billo
I think it was the OP that was missing man 7/8 commands. I was using
groff as an example, and, no I don't have groff installed...
nroff/troff, wow haven't used those in MANY years, as in BI ( before
Internet:-0)
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