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Almost all UNIX operating systems have voluminous documentation known as manual pages. Every page is a document. If one wants to read a page then the command man at a shell prompt will show the manual, for example, "man ftp". Pages are referred by using the notation "name(manual-section)", for example time(1).

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Manual Pages

man1 - Section 1 :: User Commands (introduction)

man2 - Section 2 :: System Calls (introduction)

man3 - Section 3 :: Library Functions (introduction)

man4 - Section 4 :: Special Files (introduction)

man5 - Section 5 :: File Formats (introduction)

man6 - Section 6 :: Games (introduction)

man7 - Section 7 :: Overview and Miscellany (introduction)

man8 - Section 8 :: Administration and Privileged (introduction)

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