Learning Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition

Working more effectively with Shell – basic commands

Let's learn a few commands that are required very often, such as man, echo, cat, and similar:

• Enter the following command. It will show the various types of manual pages displayed by the man command:

    $ man man
  

• From the following table, you can get an idea about various types of man pages for the same command:

Section number	Subject area
1	User commands
2	System calls
3	Library calls
4	Special files
5	File formats
6	Games
7	Miscellaneous
8	System admin
9	Kernel routines

 

• We can enter the man command to display the corresponding manual pages as follows:

    $ man 1 command
    $ man 5 command
  

• Suppose we need to know more ...