Ryan Dooley wrote: > Tsuyoshi Takada wrote: > >> Hi, all >> >> I don't know well about the following UNIX terms. >> Would you teach me about them? >> >> "contrib" ... I often see this word in ftp site. >> >> grep(1) ... What does the number (1) mean? >> >> regards, >> >> >> > I think "contrib" has it's roots in BSD - meaning contritubted > software for the BSD project. I've seen a lot of older SunOS > machines and BSD machines with /usr/contrib (instead of /usr/local). > > The (1) or (n) after a command is the section of the manual pages that > the actual man page can be found it. > > For instance if you have grep(1) and grep(3) on your system, if you > want the manual page for the user command, type "man 1 grep". If you > want the library call manual page for grep, type "man 3 grep". >
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