man sections

[Paul Cartwright]

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  and 
conventions), 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

GROFF(1)                    General Commands Manual                  
GROFF(1)

NAME
       groff - front-end for the groff document formatting system

so 7 miscellaneous does not include groff(7).. or am I misreading it...

and just for grins, try
man awk... 2032 lines... and the example shows:
EXAMPLES
       Print and sort the login names of all users:

            BEGIN     { FS = ":" }
                 { print $1 | "sort" }

um, so, how does awk work there??

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Paul Cartwright
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