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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Definitions/explanations Post 302334144 by Yogesh Sawant on Wednesday 15th of July 2009 01:43:37 AM
Old 07-15-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Straitsfan
And while I'm here: I was wondering as well how I access different sections of the manual - I've noticed there is an -S argument to the command 'man' but I don't know how to use it - I tried man [command] -S(number) and don't get anything.
is that what you were looking for?
Code:
man -S 1 ls

 

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whatis(1)							   User Commands							 whatis(1)

NAME
whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword SYNOPSIS
whatis command... DESCRIPTION
whatis looks up a given command and displays the header line from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more information. If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man -s section name' to get the documentation for it. Try `whatis ed' and then you should do `man -s 1 ed' to get the manual page for ed(1). whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command. whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database. This database is created by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail. FILES
/usr/share/man/windex Table of contents and keyword database ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdoc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 whatis(1)
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