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What do the numbers in a man page mean?
As in the "(1)" in git-svn(1)
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Manpages are arranged into sections:
- General user commands
- System calls
- Standard library functions
- Special files
- File formats
- Games
- Conventions and operations
- System administration commands
- Kernel interfaces
(These have changed around a bit over the years, and on some systems you may in particular notice sections 4 and 5 swapped.) There may also be subsections, especially on System V-derived systems (3x, 3curses, etc.)
Some systems also have sections like l (local) and n (new). Tcl/Tk manpages in particular like to install in section n, since many of them conflict with standard commands and functions.
