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Welcome to the Man-Wiki | Live GNU/Linux Unix Documentation
This wiki is intended as a reference for Linux man-pages. It already holds all man pages we could find as a starting page. Simply use the search function to look up the command you are looking for or navigate through the man sections.
If you do not find what you need, please add the corresponding man-page to the wiki.
Comments and examples on the man-pages are also welcome.
Please help to keep this information up to date because this will help Linux users around the world.
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Man Page Sections
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)
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Most Popular man-pages
Common man-pages which are frequently hit:
- mdadm Manager to handle Software Raids
- sshd_config Configure OpenSSL ssh daemon
- find find a file by name on any mounted filesystem
- ps command to view process status
- afpd AppleTalk Filing Protocol daemon
- vmstat Reporting virtual memory statistics manual page
- ls list files command to view directory listings man page
- bash the bash shell man page
- chmod Change file permissions man page.
- top to view all running processes man page.
- kill to end a certain process man page.
- perl the perl main-page man page
- perltoc Table of contents of all perl man pages
- which to lookup up the location of a command
- ln to make symbolic or hard links
- who to lookup who is logged on
- exit exit library function manual page
- exit exit kernel call manual page
- mmap maps files or devices into memory
- screen screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
- stat library functions to get file status
- netstat shows socket activity
- iptraf shows network activity
- opensc Smart Card library and applications supporting PKCS #15 compatible smart cards
- md Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software Raid
- rsync faster, flexible replacement for rcp
- bzip2 block-sorting file compressor
- Kfz Versicherung Vergleich
- Autoversicherung
- Kfz Versicherung
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