unix编程学习笔记----有问题就找man----如何用man ???

$: man man

man(1)                                                                  man(1)


NAME
       man - format and display the on-line manual pages


SYNOPSIS
       man  [-acdfFhkKtwW]  [--path]  [-m system] [-p string] [-C config_file]
       [-M pathlist] [-P pager] [-B browser] [-H htmlpager] [-S  section_list]
       [section] name ...


DESCRIPTION
       man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.  If you specify sec-
       tion, man only looks in that section of the manual.  name  is  normally
       the  name of the manual page, which is typically the name of a command,
       function, or file.  However, if name contains  a  slash  (/)  then  man
       interprets  it  as a file specification, so that you can do man ./foo.5
       or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.


       See below for a description of where man  looks  for  the  manual  page
       files.


MANUAL SECTIONS
       The standard sections of the manual include:


       1      User Commands


       2      System Calls


       3      C Library Functions


       4      Devices and Special Files


       5      File Formats and Conventions


       6      Games et. Al.


       7      Miscellanea


       8      System Administration tools and Deamons


       Distributions  customize  the  manual section to their specifics, which
       often include additional sections.


OPTIONS
       -C  config_file
              Specify   the   configuration   file  to  use;  the  default  is
:


       1      User Commands


       2      System Calls


       3      C Library Functions


       4      Devices and Special Files


       5      File Formats and Conventions


       6      Games et. Al.


       7      Miscellanea


       8      System Administration tools and Deamons


       Distributions  customize  the  manual section to their specifics, which
       often include additional sections.


OPTIONS
       -C  config_file
              Specify   the   configuration   file  to  use;  the  default  is
              /etc/man.config.  (See man.config(5).)


       -M  path
              Specify the list of directories to search for man pages.   Sepa-
              rate  the directories with colons.  An empty list is the same as
              not specifying -M at all.  See SEARCH PATH FOR MANUAL PAGES.


       -P  pager
              Specify which pager to use.  This option overrides the  MANPAGER
              environment  variable,  which  in turn overrides the PAGER vari-
              able.  By default, man uses /usr/bin/less -is.


       -B     Specify which browser to use on HTML files.  This  option  over-
              rides  the  BROWSER  environment  variable. By default, man uses
              /usr/bin/less-is,


       -H     Specify a command that renders HTML files as text.  This  option
              overrides  the  HTMLPAGER  environment variable. By default, man
              uses /bin/cat,


       -S  section_list
              List is a colon separated list of  manual  sections  to  search.
              This option overrides the MANSECT environment variable.


       -a     By default, man will exit after displaying the first manual page
              it finds.  Using this option forces man to display all the  man-
              ual pages that match name, not just the first.


       -c     Reformat  the  source man page, even when an up-to-date cat page
              exists.  This can be meaningful if the cat  page  was  formatted
              for  a screen with a different number of columns, or if the pre-
              formatted page is corrupted.

1、Standard commands （标准命令）
2、System calls （系统调用）
3、Library functions （库函数）
4、Special devices （设备说明）
5、File formats （文件格式）
6、Games and toys （游戏和娱乐）
7、Miscellaneous （杂项）
8、Administrative Commands （管理员命令）
9 其他（Linux特定的）， 用来存放内核例行程序的文档。

n 新文档， 可能要移到更适合的领域。
o 老文档， 可能会在一段期限内保留。
l 本地文档， 与本特定系统有关的。

所以在，Linux当中如果想查找一个命令或这一个函数的用法可以用  man  +选项即可