What do the numbers in a man page mean?

2012年8月8日 — I believe you're referring to man pages. The number refers to section of the manpages that the command is documented in.

2015年7月11日 — Does any of you know a page which would list all possible values of numbers which can appear between these parentheses and their meaning ?

Ordered lists Elements are preceded by a number in parentheses (1), (2). These represent a set of steps that have an order. When there are substeps, they ...

2008年9月15日 — It indicates the section of the man pages the command is found in. The -s switch on the man command can be used to limit a search to certain ...

2021年9月15日 — The number refers to the section of the man ... What does the number in parentheses shown after Unix command names in manpages mean? 0 · Linux ...

2011年6月15日 — I keep seeing parentheses and a number after a command in Unix or Linux or C function. For example: man(8), ftok(2), mount(8), etc. What do ...

2023年4月11日 — 1 Answer 1 ... This is section numbers, according to man man : The table below shows the section numbers of the manual followed by the types of ...

2010年10月28日 — The number corresponds to what section of the manual that page is from; 1 is user commands, while 8 is sysadmin stuff. The man page for man ...

2014年11月26日 — The number in parentheses indicates the section of the manual pages (man pages) that the item is located in. You can read the man page for the ...