man chmod (2) How?

[Frank Murphy]

Trying to learn some of this "man" pages

How do you of experience use "man chmod (2)"
keeps coming up as chmod1

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Trying to learn some of this "man" pages
>
> How do you of experience use "man chmod (2)"
> keeps coming up as chmod1

You can specify the section number first, like so:

man 2 chmod

Cheers,

Nalin

[Cameron Simpson]

On 04Jun2013 11:28, Nalin Dahyabhai  wrote:
| On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
| > Trying to learn some of this "man" pages
| > 
| > How do you of experience use "man chmod (2)"
| > keeps coming up as chmod1
| 
| You can specify the section number first, like so:
| 
|   man 2 chmod

... as describe in "man man" :-)

Cheers,

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 04 June 2013 16:28:14 Frank Murphy wrote:
> Trying to learn some of this "man" pages
>
> How do you of experience use "man chmod (2)"
> keeps coming up as chmod1
>
> --
> Regards,
> Frank - I check for new mail app. 20min
> www.frankly3d.com

man 2 chmod

[Fred]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:36:07 +0100
Gary Stainburn  wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 June 2013 16:28:14 Frank Murphy wrote:
> > Trying to learn some of this "man" pages
> >
> > How do you of experience use "man chmod (2)"
> > keeps coming up as chmod1
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Frank - I check for new mail app. 20min
> > www.frankly3d.com
>
> man 2 chmod

The man 2 chmod command doesn't seem to work on my system:
[fred@athbox-f18 ~]$ uname -r
3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64
[fred@athbox-f18 ~]$ man 2 chmod
No manual entry for chmod in section 2

but, this info at the end of the regular 'man chmod' man page does:

SEE ALSO
       chmod(2)

The full documentation for chmod is maintained as a Texinfo
       manual.  If the  info  and  chmod programs are properly
       installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'chmod invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.17               January 2013
CHMOD(1) Manual page chmod(1) line 124/148 (END) (press h for help or q
to quit)

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:55:57AM -0800, Fred Erickson wrote:
> The man 2 chmod command doesn't seem to work on my system:
> [fred@athbox-f18 ~]$ uname -r
> 3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64
> [fred@athbox-f18 ~]$ man 2 chmod
> No manual entry for chmod in section 2

On my system, the corresponding file (/usr/share/man/man2/chmod.2.gz) is
provided by the 'man-pages' package.  Do you have it installed?

Nalin

[Jack Craig]

man 2 chmod   ...

hth, ...

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Frank Murphy  wrote:
> Trying to learn some of this "man" pages
>
> How do you of experience use "man chmod (2)"
> keeps coming up as chmod1
>
> --
> Regards,
> Frank - I check for new mail app. 20min
> www.frankly3d.com
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[Wojciech Komornicki]

man 2 chmod
> > > > > "Frank" == Frank Murphy  writes:

Frank:> Trying to learn some of this "man" pages
  Frank:> How do you of experience use "man chmod (2)"
  Frank:> keeps coming up as chmod1

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