Manual pages, commonly shortened to man pages, were conceived as readily-available reminders for command syntax, device driver details, or configuration ...
The following reference information describes the contents of each man page section, the information that is in each section, and the standard layout that is ...
A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. History · Formatting · Manual sections · Authoring
The following subsections note some details for preferred formatting and wording conventions in various sections of the pages in the man-pages project.
