Timeline for What do the numbers in a man page mean?
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| Apr 5, 2022 at 7:53 | comment | added | U. Windl | Also read the middle-part of the first line; for example it says "POSIX Programmer's Manual" for "1p" as opposed to "User Commands" for "1" (here on Linux at least). | |
| Jun 23, 2014 at 6:36 | comment | added | Babken Vardanyan | @Tyilo see my answer | |
| S Aug 6, 2011 at 6:59 | history | post merged (destination) | |||
| Aug 4, 2011 at 22:42 | comment | added | andcoz | 1p is the posix standard version of the manual. If you want to write portable code, you should use only Xp man pages. If you implementation is non posix compliant X and Xp man pages could differ. | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 21:11 | vote | accept | Tyilo | ||
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| Aug 4, 2011 at 20:20 | comment | added | Tyilo |
And where should I place my own manpages located in ~/man?
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| Aug 4, 2011 at 20:15 | comment | added | Tyilo |
And what are man1p and man3p?
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| Aug 4, 2011 at 19:57 | history | answered | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | CC BY-SA 3.0 |