man <section #> <page>
Из справочной страницы man:
The table below shows the section numbers of the manual followed by the types of pages they contain.
1 Executable programs or shell commands
2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
3 Library calls (functions within program libraries)
4 Special files (usually found in /dev)
5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
6 Games
7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)
8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
Чтобы посмотреть, какие разделы существуют для данной страницы, вы можете использовать флаг -k
:
$ man -k ^sleep$
sleep (1) - delay for a specified amount of time
sleep (3) - sleep for a specified number of seconds