[Gllug] command(number)

[Avi Greenbury]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:33:57 +0000
Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:23:05PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> > Most likely a stupid question, but I've seen quite a few people refer to commands as <command>(<number>), like mount(8) or su(1)
> > 
> > What does it mean?
> 
> It's the section number for the manual. They have the following major
> categories:
> 

Ah! Perfect!
Hence the references appearing with references to documentation...

Cheers!

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Avi Greenbury <god at lordandmaker.co.uk>
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