Accessing man pages withnumbers after them.

[Glenn Holmer]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:31 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
> > I'm reading man pages, and when the man page references another man
> >  page with something like
> > 
> >       (see  pipe(7))
> > 
> > I do not know how to load that page into the reader.
> 
> man 7 pipe

Also, if there is more than one and you're not sure, you can type it as
"man -a <command>" and hit 'q' after each one:

shadowm at cenbe:~ > man -a crontab
--Man-- next: crontab(5) [ view (return) | skip (Ctrl-D) | quit (Ctrl-C) ]

You can also type "man -f <command>" to get the list:

shadowm at cenbe:~ > man -f crontab
crontab (1)          - maintain crontab files for individual users (V3)
crontab (5)          - tables for driving cron

For more information... "man man" :)

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