What is 1? What is 3? What are the numbers called and is there a full list with explanations?
$ whatis nvim
nvim (1) - edit text
$ whatis printf
printf (3) - formatted output conversion
printf (1) - format and print data
Thanks :)
This is section numbers, according to man man:
The table below shows the section numbers of the manual followed by the types of pages they contain.
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, e.g. /etc/passwd
6 Games
7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g.
man(7), groff(7), man-pages(7)
8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
Ex:
man 3 printf # C Linux Programmer's Manual
man 1 printf # User Commands
man -k printf
[...]
sprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
swprintf (3) - formatted wide-character output conversion
vasprintf (3) - print to allocated string
[...]
Stack Overflowis a very toxic place, but on this question I can kinda understand it. The problem is I didn't even know what to search the internet for, because I didn't know the name of it. But of course it is a duplicate, still thanks for being kind :)