This thread What do the numbers in a man page mean? answers the question of the significance of the numbers between parentheses within a man page. My question is related.
I have a local installation of a package called ffmpeg
. The build folder has the typical bin
, lib
, etc. and then the folder:
man/man1/
with the following files:
ffmpeg-bitstream-filters.1 ffmpeg-scaler.1 libavdevice.3
ffmpeg-codecs.1 ffmpeg-utils.1 libavfilter.3
ffmpeg-devices.1 ffmpeg.1 libavformat.3
ffmpeg-filters.1 ffplay.1 libavutil.3
ffmpeg-formats.1 ffprobe.1 libswresample.3
ffmpeg-protocols.1 ffserver.1 libswscale.3
ffmpeg-resampler.1 libavcodec.3
My questions are:
- Why is there a subfolder under
man
calledman1
? Why not just inman
? And why the suffix1
? - Which path should I add to
MANPATH
? The one pointing toman
? orman/man1
? - What do the suffices in the files above mean? Are they the same numbers within parentheses described in the thread I mentioned above?