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read() attempts to read up to count bytes from file descriptor fd into the buffer starting at buf. On files that support seeking, the read operation commences at the file offset, and the file offset is incremented by the number of bytes read.
free - Display amount of free and used memory in the system SYNOPSIS top free [option...] DESCRIPTION top free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the kernel. The information is gathered by parsing /proc/meminfo.
- Getting Started with The Man Pages in Linux
- Section What?
- Man Page Sections
- The Manual’s Sections
- Searching For A Specific Section
- Using Man -K to Search All Man Pages containing A Certain Keyword
- Using Whatis and Whereis Commands to Know The Manual’s Sections
- Conclusion
The pages are viewed through a utility called, man, and the command to use it is rather easy. In the simplest form, to use man, you type man on the command line, followed by a space and the command that you want to look up, such as ls or cp, like so: man opens the manual page of the lscommand. You can move up and down with the arrow keys and press ...
Before you begin to look at man pages much deeper, it will be helpful to know that man pages have a set page layout and a filing scheme. This can be confusing to a newcomer since I can say: “Look at the NAME section of the man page for ls.” I can also say, “Look at the man page for passwd in section5.” I italicized the word, section to try to show ...
You will be looking at different man pages so let’s study the individual page layout first. Manual pages are split into several headings and they may vary from vendor to vendor, but they will be similar. The general breakdown is as follows: 1. NAME 2. SYNOPSIS 3. DESCRIPTION 4. EXAMPLES 5. DIAGNOSTICS 6. FILES 7. LIMITS 8. PORTABILITY 9. SEE ALSO 1...
The entire Linux manual collection of pages are traditionally divided into numbered sections: 1. Section 1: Shell commands and applications 2. Section 2: Basic kernel services – system calls and error codes 3. Section 3: Library information for programmers 4. Section 4: Network services – if TCP/IP or NFS is installed Device drivers and network pro...
The basic command: will search for the man page identified by name in every section, displaying them one at a time, in numerical order. To limit your search to a specific section, use an argument with the mancommand, like so: This command will only search section 1, of the man pages, for name. Using our passwd example earlier, this means that we ca...
The man command, with the k option (often called a flag or switch) can come in handy if you want a listing of man pages containing a certain keyword. For example, if you want to see a list of man pages that deal with, say, ftp, you can get this list by typing: From the listing that will follow, you’ll be able to pick a specific man page to read: On...
There are two nifty utilities that can be helpful in your search for information: whatis and whereis.
If you spend some time and effort with the man pages, you will come out on top. Your proficiency of the man pages, will play a huge part in your mastery over Linux.
- Bill Dyer
Linux man pages online. The links from this page display HTML renderings of the man pages from the Linux man-pages project as well as a curated collection of pages from various other free software projects. List of all man pages: by section | alphabetically | by project.
- No Option: It displays the whole manual of the command. Syntax : $ man [COMMAND NAME] Example: $ man printf. Output: In this example, manual pages of the command ‘printf‘ are simply returned.
- Section-num: Since a manual is divided into multiple sections so this option is used to display only a specific section of a manual. Syntax : $ man [SECTION-NUM] [COMMAND NAME]
- f option: One may not be able to remember the sections in which a command is present. So this option gives the section in which the given command is present.
- a option: This option helps us to display all the available intro manual pages in succession. Syntax: $ man -a [COMMAND NAME] Example: $ man -a intro.
read man | Linux Command Library. read from a file descriptor. TLDR. Store data that you type from the keyboard. $ read [variable] Do not let backslash (\\) act as an escape character. $ read -r [variable] Read stdin and perform an action on every line. $ while read line; do echo "$line"; done. SYNOPSIS. read [-r] var... PROLOG.
read() attempts to read up to count bytes from file descriptor fd into the buffer starting at buf. On files that support seeking, the read operation commences at the file offset, and the file offset is incremented by the number of bytes read.
