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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>man page</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="malware.html" title="malware"/><link rel="next" href="management.html" title="management"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">man page</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="malware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="management.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="man-page"/><dt xmlns="" id="man-page"><b>man page</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>A page from the Unix Programmer's Manual,
documenting one of Unix's many commands, system calls,
library subroutines, device driver interfaces, file formats,
games, macro packages, or maintenance utilities.
By extension, the term &#8220;<span class="quote">man page</span>&#8221; may be used to refer to
documentation of any kind, under any system, though it is most likely to be
confined to short on-line references.</p><p>As mentioned in <a href="../conventions.html" title="Chapter 11. Other Lexicon Conventions">Chapter 11, <i>Other Lexicon Conventions</i></a>, there is a
standard syntax for referring to man page entries: the phrase
&#8220;<span class="quote">foo(n)</span>&#8221; refers to the page for &#8220;<span class="quote">foo</span>&#8221; in chapter
n of the manual, where chapter 1 is user commands, chapter 2 is system
calls, etc.</p><p>The man page format is beloved, or berated, for having the same sort
of pithy utility as the rest of Unix. Man pages tend to be written as very
compact, concise descriptions which are complete but not forgiving of the
lazy or careless reader. Their stylized format does a good job of
summarizing the essentials: invocation syntax, options, basic
functionality. While such a concise reference is perfect for the
do-one-thing-and-do-it-well tools which are favored by the Unix philosophy,
it admittedly breaks down when applied to a command which is itself a major
subsystem.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="malware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="management.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">malware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> management</td></tr></table></div></body></html>