Appendix A. Using Linux Manual Pages
Manual Page Sections
The online manual pages found in Linux provide a wealth of information. The manual pages are loosely grouped by category into the following sections:
User commands and application programs.
System calls. A complete list of system calls can be found at the end of this appendix.
Library functions—these functions do not directly invoke kernel primitives.
Devices.
File formats.
Games and demonstrations.
Special conventions and protocols, character set standards, the standard file system layout, and a variety of other miscellaneous things.
Administrative and privileged commands available only to the superuser.
Device drivers and kernel interfaces.
New.
There are a variety of ways to access manual page information. ...
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