[SLUG] Broken symlinks

[Gavin Baker]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:32, Al Girling wrote:
> On Thursday 19 September 2002 1:11 am, Gavin wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, its just the filetype=colour. dir_colors(5) has the details.
> 
> How do I see dir_colors(5)?  I've found the file, dir_colors.5.bz2 which is 
> the closest. but when I tried to look with 'cat' its all gobbledegook  (In 
> binary format I'm guessing)
> 
> I found this in 
> 
> /usr/share/man/man5
> 
> is this what I'm supposed to look at?

Yep. When you see something like "dir_colors(5)" it means the
"dir_colors" manpage (which is in section 5). So just type "man 5
dir_colors" to read it. 

There are some manpages which exist more than once, in different
sections, which is why references to manpages usually have the section
number. (for example printf(1) and printf(3)).

The actual files you found in /usr/share/man/man5 are the manpage
formatted documents (groff), compressed with bzip2(1) to save space, and
are read by man(1) :)

Regards,
Gav