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Linux MAN page question

Hello,

I have couple of question regarding using Man pages in Linux.

1. When i get into the folder /usr/share/man, I could see folders such as man1, man2, man3, man4 ......man9. what are all those? In some article, I noticed something like "refer man5 page" etc. How can i do that?

2. Can I convert the Man pages into a file so that I can take print out of it or save it for future reference.

Thanks,
Ashok

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fosiul01

if you want some informaiton, you type

man ls = to get information about ls command
you dont go to /usr/share/man folder for that

Tintin

man man

to find out all about man and the various categories.

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rdashokraj

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Thanks so much for all your responses.

rdashokraj

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Hi fosiul01,

In the script given in the specified page: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-print-out-a-linux-man-or-info-page.html
has one small bug.

Instead of this line, man $i col -b > $OUTDIR/$i.txt
the syntax should be as man $i | col -b > $OUTDIR/$i.txt

The pipe is left out in it.

Just want to bring to your notice.