23 Dec
2014
23 Dec
'14
9:10 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On 12/23/2014 08:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, "man man" does tell one the purpose of each of the sections.
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 eg /etc/passwd 6 Games 7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages andconventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7) 8 System administration commands (usually only for root) 9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
see again I get confused...
man 7 groff No manual entry for groff in section 7
As someone else noted, it's most likely that either you don't have all the man pages installed, or you don't have all the programs installed. For me, for instance, "man 7 groff" brings up a man page for me in both CentOS 6.6 and Fedora 21.
billo