I could find a Attribute like (1M), (1) in the commands of VERITAS UNIX. What does it mean?
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I could find a Attribute like (1M), (1) in the commands of VERITAS UNIX.
What does it mean?
Ex: backuptrace(1M), bp(1)
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This is a pointer to section in manuals
I believe it's described in the man page for "man" command.
Try to run "man man"
also described here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_page_(Unix)
Hey I am not well good in Unix
I dont get anything from that Link :(
Tell me in Detail Please!
Thanks, Karthikeyan Sundaram.
This is an extract
from the Wiki URL you couldn't (?) access:
"...
To read a manual page for a Unix command, one can use man <command_name> at a shell prompt. For example, "man ftp".
...
Pages are traditionally referred to using the notation "name(section)"; for example, ftp(1).
The same page name may appear in more than one section of the manual, this can occur when the names of system calls, user commands, or macro packages coincide. Two examples are man(1) and man(7), or exit(2) and exit(3).
..."
Have bolded the bits that, hopefully, clarify it!
e.g. the command 'man' can be used in several contexts & so appears in different sections of the manual pages.
Regards Andy
"It's not too late to panic ..."
1m = shell commands
1m is a section of man. 1m is normal commands. . You may from time to time discover the same word is used for both a command and a system call. To tell the difference, you would show what section of man you are talking about eg : mount (1m).
0 Header files (usually found in /usr/include)
1 Executable programs or shell commands
2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
3 Library calls (functions within program libraries)
4 Special files (usually found in /dev)
5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
6 Games
7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and convenâ
tions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)
8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
As a hint, you can use keyword search in man : man -k call
This will print every ting that has the word "call" in it - With reference to which section it is (1, 1m, 2, ,3 etc)
Assumption is the mother of all mess ups.
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Nice.
Never seen any for 6 tho'! ;-)
Regards Andy
"It's not too late to panic ..."
We need more items for 6!
We need more items for 6! even on AIX the games no longer get installed by default!
I don't have to know how to spell....I work on Unix.
NetBackup 7.0.1 - AIX & Windows
:-s
There's really games?!! Now I'll never get any work done!
Regards Andy
"It's not too late to panic ..."
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