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The Linux command "man" displays manpages

The Linux command man displays manpages

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What do the parentheses and number after a Unix command or C function mean?

I keep seeing parentheses and a number after a command in Unix or Linux or C function. For example: man(8), ftok(2), mount(8), etc. What do these mean? I see them in man too.
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How to install man pages for C standard library functions in Ubuntu?

In my university, I can do such things as: man strlen man strcpy man msgget man msgctl and a nice manual page appears. On my PC I get $ man strcat No manual entry for strcat Any help on how to get those documentation pages into my computer?
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Bash Man Page: kill vs kill -9

My man page does not document the difference between kill and kill -9 Since these do different things why is the -9 not documented in the kill manpage? I thought maybe it was a shell specific things so I looked in the bash man page…
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What does the 1 in ls(1) refer to?

Possible Duplicate: What do the parentheses and number after a Linux command or C function mean? I see that many utilities have a number in brackets after their name, for example ls(1) or symlink(7). What are these numbers called, and what do…
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What do the underlined words in Unix man pages do?

This may be a really dumb question, but I think that I remember hearing that they link to other pages and that there is away to follow the link. Maybe it is just for emphasis
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man page only found after ran with root

When I try to run man page on my Red Hat as a normal user I get "No manual entry for zip" If I change to root run: "man zip" and then I get the man page and afterwards I see the same man page as I did with root. Is there some kind of man page…
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Enabling mouse scrolling in OS X terminal man pages

I have been trying to find a way for the OS X Terminal to accept the mouse input to scroll in the man pages. I have installed SIMBL and MouseTerm but this does not enable scrolling in the man pages. Any sugestions?
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How can I make the man command not use a pager?

How can I force the man command to not use a pager, and instead output the whole manpage at once and keep all highlighting? If I use man -P cat or man | cat, I lose highlighting.
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What's the difference between "uname -r" and "uname -v"?

I am using CentOS 6.2. In the man page of uname (i.e., man uname), it says: -r, --kernel-release print the kernel release -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version While trying the command, it shows…
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Why does $ find -delete not work sometimes?

I think what I'm talking about is this part of the manpage, which is just barely too indecipherable for me: -delete ... It will not attempt to delete a filename with a ``/'' character in its pathname relative to ``.'' for security…
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what does crypt(3) and whatnot mean

Possible Duplicate: What do the parentheses and number after a Linux command or C function mean? In Linux Manpages (http://linux.die.net/man/3/crypt) I often see sth like this: crypt(3), bla(4), bla(5) What is the full meaning of these…
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Confusion about the `conntrack` extension of `iptables`

The iptables-extensions manpage has this to say about the conntrack extension (emphasis mine): This module, when combined with connection tracking, allows access to the connection tracking state for this packet/connection. I thought conntrack is…
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Linux: disable man from showing mans in non-English languages

On my Linux there are some outdated translated mans installed. I want to prohibit man utility from showing them. I want to do this permanently, while saving a current locale. What environment settings should I change (setenv in .profile) to limit…
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Linux Man command help

Are there any tricks/sites/methods to use the linux man command in a more convenient way ? I love commands in terminal but for some strange reason I preferred to type man in firefox then in the terminal. The output is so long and I have to scroll…
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Man broke, possibly on installing git, how do I fix?

I am running Mac snow leopard 10.6.3 and I used a mac installer program for git that was designed originally for leopard. I think since then my man pages have been broken and attempting to look up any command makes my computer stall for a bit before…
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