[Cialug] linux command question

[Mathew R. Phillips]

ah. That makes sense. I always wondered what that meant but i didn't really know what to google for the answer to it!

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org on behalf of Colin Burnett
Sent: Sat 1/2/2010 10:56 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] linux command question
 
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Mathew R. Phillips
<mathew.phillips at wartburg.edu> wrote:
>
> I've noticed that alot of commands in linux have numbers in parenthesis
> after them like setarch(8) in one of the recent mail posts. What is the
> significance of those numbers?

8 is the man section.

$ man setarch

The more specific way to get the man page is with the section

$ man 8 setarch

This is necessary for such things as printf

The C function:
$ man 3 printf

vs. the bash function
$ man 1 printf


Colin
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