Unix man page
Unix manual page
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operating system (Or “man page”) A part of Unix’s extensive on-line documentation. To read a manual page from the Unix command line, type: man [-s ] e.g. “man ftp” (the section number can usually be omitted). Pages are traditionally referred to using the notation “page(section)”, e.g. ftp(1). Under SunOS (which is fairly typical), Section 1 […]
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