man man

Question 1

Each page given to man is normally the name of a ___, ___, or ___.

Answer 1

• program
• utility
• function

Question 2

What are the 17 standard section of a man page?

Answer 2

1. Name
2. Synopsis
3. Configuration
4. Description
5. Options
6. Exit Status
7. Return Value
8. Errors
9. Environment
10. Files
11. Versions
12. Confoming To
13. Notes
14. Bugs
15. Examples
16. Authors
17. See Also

Question 3

What does “bold” text represent in a man page?

Answer 3

Type exactly as shown

Question 4

What does “italic text” represent in a man page?

Note: Exact rendering may vary depending on the output device. For instance man will usually not be able to render italics when running in a terminal, and will typically use underlined or coloured text instead.

Answer 4

Replace with appropriate argument

Question 5

What does “[-abc]” text represent in a man page?

Answer 5

any or all arguments within [] are optional

Question 6

What does “-a | -b” represent in a man page?

Answer 6

options delimited by | cannot be used together

Question 7

What does “argument…” text represent in a man page?

Answer 7

argument is repeatable

Question 8

What does “[expression] …” text represent in a man page?

Answer 8

Entire expression within [] is repeatable

Question 9

What is the command to see a specific section of a man page?

Answer 9

man man.7

Question 10

What is the man command option to see all manual section of an item (program/utility/function)

Answer 10

-a

Question 11

What man command option searches the short description and manual page names for a specific keyword as a regular expression? It’s equavalent is apropos

Answer 11

man -k user_supplied_item

Question 12

What man command option looks up the manual pages referenced by the item supplied to the option and prints out the short description of any found? It’s equivalent to whatis

Answer 12

man -f user_supplied_item