Accessing man pages withnumbers after them.

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Fri, March 5, 2010 13:14, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> 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" :)

If all else fails, you can also use 'apropos'