man page

The Unix man command gives you access to documentation in the form of manual ("man") pages at the shell prompt. Enter man followed by the name of the command.

The Unix manual consists of eight sections, and each man page has its command name followed by the section number in parenthesis. Note that if you are a user, you will be using the commands in section 1.

Section #	Topic
1	Commands available to users
2	Unix and C system calls
3	C library routines for C programs
4	Special file names
5	File formats and conventions for files used by Unix
6	Games
7	Word processing packages
8	System administration co