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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers man pages Post 34091 by minazk on Tuesday 4th of February 2003 02:16:40 AM
Old 02-04-2003
The Reference Manual is divided into sections.Each section addresses a related set of commands...i.e.
Section 1 - User Commands
1M - System maintenance & administration commands
2 - Low-level operating system calls....

and so on
minazk
 

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INTRO(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  INTRO(1)

NAME
intro -- introduction to general commands (tools and utilities) DESCRIPTION
Section one of the manual contains most of the commands which comprise the BSD user environment. Some of the commands included in section one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands. All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally. The exit values and their meanings are explained in the individual manuals. Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful completion of the command. SEE ALSO
man(1), intro(2), intro(3), intro(4), intro(5), intro(6), intro(7), intro(8), intro(9) The Regents of the University of California, UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents, University of California, Berkeley, http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bsd/lite2/usd.html, June, 1993. HISTORY
An intro(1) manual appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
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