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A manpage is a piece of documentation (not just a single page) that comes with most programs installed on Ubuntu.This is invoked with the name of a program to call up a help manual with various sections detailing the operation of the program.

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How do I view the man pages?

Just my 2¢: If you type man man (i.e. looking up the manpage for man) you get: * man (1) man (7mp) man (1p) Man: What manual page do you want? … You can type in 1, 7mp, 1p to view whichever fits your fancy. 1p, for example, is the manpage for the command as defined by POSIX. …
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