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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 Name Linux man-pages - manual pages for GNU/Linux Synopsis This package contains GNU/Linux manual pages for sections 1 through 8. Description The manual pages in this project document primarily the Linux kernel and the GNU C library, but also consider relevant differences in other kernels or C libraries. These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages for GNU/Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities. Files CONTRIBUTING CONTRIBUTING.d/* Instructions for reporting bugs and contributing. INSTALL Instructions for installing and uninstalling. MAINTAINER_NOTES Notes for maintainers. README Main information about the project and the repository. RELEASE Instructions for releasing and distributing new versions. Changes, Changes.old Change log. Includes most relevant changes. However, it's not as complete as the git(1) log. GNUmakefile, share/mk/* Build system. For help, consult the file, and run 'make help'. lsm Linux software map. See also https://lsm.qqx.org/. LICENSES/*.txt Licenses in use by the project. etc/* Configuration files for (linter) programs called by the build system. man*/* Manual pages. scripts/* Useful scripts for maintainers. .tmp/ Default directory for files created by the build system. Versions Distribution https://kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/ https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/share/dist/man-pages/ Git https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/ https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/ Online man-pages PDF https://kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/ https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/share/dist/man-pages/ HTML https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html History Tarballs Tarballs of man-pages-1.* releases are available at: https://www.win.tue.nl/\~aeb/ftpdocs/linux-local/manpages.archive/ Maintainers Alejandro Colomar alx@kernel.org https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/ 2020 - present (5.09 - HEAD) Michael Kerrisk mtk.manpages@gmail.com https://man7.org/ 2004 - 2021 (2.00 - 5.13) Andries Brouwer aeb@cwi.nl https://www.win.tue.nl/\~aeb 1995 - 2004 (1.6 - 1.70) Rik Faith https://www.cs.unc.edu/\~faith/ 1993 - 1995 (1.0 - 1.5) Caveats Some projects provide their own manual pages, not related to the Linux man-pages project. Bugs See the file. Copyright Several free/open source licenses. See the directory, and the comment at the top of each source file. See also man-pages(7) Website https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/index.html. Downstream packages Arch man-pages https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/man-pages/ Debian manpages https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/manpages Fedora rpms/man-pages https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/man-pages Gentoo sys-apps/man-pages https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/man-pages openSUSE man-pages https://software.opensuse.org/package/man-pages Related projects Debian manpages-l10n https://manpages-l10n-team.pages.debian.net/manpages-l10n/ GNU C Library (glibc) https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) https://gcc.gnu.org/ GNU roff (groff) https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ Linux kernel <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ man-db https://man-db.gitlab.io/man-db/ mandoc https://mandoc.bsd.lv/