linux - How to find available man chapter/section for a particular command?

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2014-04
  • user3134198

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  • Journeyman Geek

    You use apropos -e ls - this is for exact matches, and filters out a lot of stiff The apropos command will search through manpage titles for a string. The number next to the entry in question is the number of chapters, I believe- for example when I run apropos -e mkdir

    mkdir (1)            - make directories
mkdir (2)            - create a directory

    While the output of apropos -e ls shows 

    dircolors (1)        - color setup for ls
ls (1)               - list directory contents

    I admit I've not been able to work out if the number in the bracket next to the name of the command is the chapter number, but this would be the command to use.


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  • Rodnower

    where I can to find mapping between man section number and it's description in standalone mashine.
    In other words, where I can to find description of some man section when I have not connection to Internet?
    For example:

    1    -> User commands
2, 3 -> Linux programmer's manual
and so on...

    Thank you for ahead.


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  • Gilles

    On Linux, there's a one-line description of each section number in man 1 man.

    On most Unices (including Linux), man N intro describes what sort of things are in section N.