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      1 # man pages
      2 
      3 ## sections
      4 
      5 taken from `man man`:
      6 ```
      7 MANUAL SECTIONS
      8     The standard sections of the manual include:
      9 
     10     1      User Commands
     11     2      System Calls
     12     3      C Library Functions
     13     4      Devices and Special Files
     14     5      File Formats and Conventions
     15     6      Games et. al.
     16     7      Miscellanea
     17     8      System Administration tools and Daemons
     18 ```
     19 [unix stackexchange](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3586/what-do-the-numbers-in-a-man-page-mean)
     20 
     21 ## searching
     22 [cyberciti.biz](https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-search-all-the-linux-unix-man-pages/)
     23 
     24 `apropos` command
     25 
     26 ```bash
     27 apropos "term"
     28 apropos -s 1 "term"
     29 ```
     30 
     31 `-s` indicates search only specific section