Therefor, when referring to the man page of the passwd command, you will see it written as passwd(1) ; when referring to the passwd file , you will see it written as passwd(5) . The screenshot explains how to open the man page in the correct section.
[paul@RHEL52 ~]$ man passwd # opens the first manual found
[paul@RHEL52 ~]$ man 5 passwd # opens a page from section 5
Question
What does the linux command below do ?
$ man 5 passwd
Answer
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Question
What does the linux command below do ?
$ man 5 passwd
Answer
man $section $file
Therefor, when referring to the man page of the passwd command, you will see it written as passwd(1) ; when referring to the passwd file , you will see it written as passwd(5) . The screenshot explains how to open the man page in the correct section.
[paul@RHEL52 ~]$ man passwd # opens the first manual found
[paul@RHEL52 ~]$ man 5 passwd # opens a page from section 5
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Chapter 7. man pages ventions eg /etc/passwd 6 Games 7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7) 8 System administration commands (usually only for root) 9 Kernel routines [Non standard] <span>man $section $file Therefor, when referring to the man page of the passwd command, you will see it written as passwd(1); when referring to the passwd file, you will see it written as passwd(5). The screenshot explains how to open the man page in the correct section. [paul@RHEL52 ~]$ man passwd # opens the first manual found [paul@RHEL52 ~]$ man 5 passwd # opens a page from section 5 man man If you want to know more about man, then Read The Fantastic Manual (RTFM). Unfortunately, manual pages do not have the answer to everything... paul@laika:~$ man woman No manual
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