Re: man sections

[Paul Cartwright]

On 12/23/2014 05:19 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > and just for grins, try
> > man awk... 2032 lines... and the example shows:
>
> You're complaining that awk has documentation?

oh no! that just means there are lots of options, arguements.....
complex command:)
> > EXAMPLES
> >       Print and sort the login names of all users:
> >            BEGIN     { FS = ":" }
> >                 { print $1 | "sort" }
> >
> > um, so, how does awk work there??
>
> That is an example awk program. I would expect to feed it the
> /etc/passwd file as input.

I would usually grep password, looking for a specific name... nice to
have a sorted list though.