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What does the “3am” section means in manpages?
Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?No manual page for regex in section 3 - where is it?How do you output a list of all man pages in a particular section?What means the “integer argument” in system call descriptions?In what section do descriptions of C data-structures go?What is a Kernel Routine ?What is the “2001 article” for blocking “automated retrieval programs” referred to by the wget man page?How does `man git init` get the right man page?Why is this command to open man page and perform search not working?Man pages: When to put a new system call in section 2 and when in section 3?How to fix stray “Qq” groff_mdoc quoting macros in man page?
I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk extension, however, the section page number was 3am, instead of just 3.
What does 3am means?
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I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk extension, however, the section page number was 3am, instead of just 3.
What does 3am means?
man
asked yesterday
Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
280213
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'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
yesterday
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My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
19 hours ago
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I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk extension, however, the section page number was 3am, instead of just 3.
What does 3am means?
man
asked yesterday
Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
280213
I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk extension, however, the section page number was 3am, instead of just 3.
What does 3am means?
man
man
asked yesterday
Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
280213
asked yesterday
Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
280213
asked yesterday
Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
280213
asked yesterday
Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
280213
asked yesterday
Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
280213
280213
6
'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
yesterday
2
My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
19 hours ago
add a comment |
6
'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
yesterday
2
My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
19 hours ago
6
6
'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
yesterday
'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
yesterday
2
2
My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
19 hours ago
My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
19 hours ago
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It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
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In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
yesterday
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
yesterday
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It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
answered yesterday
steeldriversteeldriver
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In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
yesterday
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
yesterday
add a comment |
It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
answered yesterday
steeldriversteeldriver
37.6k45389
1
In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
yesterday
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
yesterday
add a comment |
It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
answered yesterday
steeldriversteeldriver
37.6k45389
It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
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answered yesterday
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answered yesterday
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37.6k45389
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In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
yesterday
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
yesterday
add a comment |
1
In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
yesterday
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
yesterday
1
1
In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate for
gawk libraries, whereas fork() is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.– Kusalananda♦
yesterday
In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate for
gawk libraries, whereas fork() is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.– Kusalananda♦
yesterday
2
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes like
cpp, ssl or perl.– Peregring-lk
yesterday
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes like
cpp, ssl or perl.– Peregring-lk
yesterday
add a comment |
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'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
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My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
19 hours ago