Programming

Hi friends,
I hope everyone is fine and doing well. I am facing this irritating problem. As you know that manual pages are available for both unix commands and c functions. Now when I try to check the manual pages for functions like

Code:

 
read
write
exit

I get the manual pages for the commands with the same name. How to remedy this problem, what is the solution when we have the name of a command and function to be the same?

Looking forward to your wonderful replies.

Thanks in advance!

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For those who are interested!!!

Just enter

Code:

man -a exit

you will see all the data for the exit, whether command or function

Have you ever heard about manual sections? I suggest you read the man's own man page to check this.

You also should become familar with the -k option to the man command, e.g.

Code:

man -k exit

The structure of the "man" pages is described in man man .
man -a <title> is indeed really useful for finding all pages with the same title. The "-a" keyword is not valid on all versions of unix.

Some versions of unix have the apropos <keyword> command which is the same as man -k <keyword>.