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Linux Man Pages (Manual Pages)
- Man page sections
- Search alphabetically
- Popular man pages
- How to view man pages on Linux
- About man-org
Man page sections
The Linux man-pages project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs. With respect to the C library, the primary focus is the GNU C library (glibc), although, where known, documentation of variations in other C libraries available for Linux is also included. The project provides manual pages in the following sections:
| Manpages | Sorted by category |
|---|---|
| Section 0p | Header files (POSIX) |
| Section 1 | Executable programs or shell commands (introduction) |
| Section 1p | Executable programs or shell commands (POSIX) |
| Section 2 | System calls (introduction) |
| Section 3 | Library calls (introduction) |
| Section 3p | Perl Modules |
| Section 4 | Special files (introduction) |
| Section 5 | File formats and conventions (introduction) |
| Section 6 | Games (introduction) |
| Section 7 | Miscellaneous (introduction) |
| Section 8 | System administration commands (introduction) |
| Section n | Tcl functions |
Popular man pages
The table below contains links to some of the most often used shell utilties, and these man pages are grouped here as a quick reference..
| apropos | awk | bash | cat | chmod | chown | chroot | cp |
| csplit | curl | cut | date | dd | df | diff | du |
| echo | feh | find | git | gpg | grep | head | htop |
| info | kill | locate | less | ln | ls | man | mkdir |
| mount | mv | pandoc | pass | posix | perl | printf | ps |
| rm | sed | seq | shuf | sort | split | ssh | sudo |
| tail | tac | tar | tee | top | touch | tr | umount |
| uname | uniq | uptime | wc | wget | xargs | yes | zip |
How to view man pages on Linux
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About man-org
man-org is a project that essentially takes Linux man pages written in the standard man page format (Troff) and converts them to a much more user-friendly format (Org). The complete man-org database is freely available for anyone to download and/or install. The source code for man-org can be found in this GitLab repo, and contributions to the project are welcome.