MAN PAGES ________________________________________________________________________________ A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include computer programs (including library and system calls), formal standards and conventions, and even abstract concepts. A user may invoke a man page by issuing the man command. [0] The man utility ________________________________________________________________________________ The 'mandoc' [1] package is the default provider of the 'man' utility. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Install mandoc | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss b mandoc && kiss i mandoc | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ By default, man typically uses a terminal pager program such as more or less to display its output. This can be configured via the $PAGER environment variable. Linux manuals ________________________________________________________________________________ The Linux man-pages project [2] documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Install man-pages | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss b man-pages && kiss i man-pages | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ POSIX manuals ________________________________________________________________________________ These are pages from POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 1. Since TC1 appeared in 2013, it is also known as POSIX.1-2013. The man pages contain descriptions of the headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Install man-pages-posix | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss b man-pages-posix && kiss i man-pages-posix | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ References ________________________________________________________________________________ [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page [1] https://mandoc.bsd.lv/ [2] https://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/