The example on page 35 shows that man pages for passwd appear in sec- tions 1 and 5 of the system manual. Explain how you can use man to determine which sections of the system manual contain a manual page with a given name.

What will be an ideal response?


Use man with the –f option (equivalent to whatis) to list man entries for the
argument that follows this option. Alternatively, use man with the –a option
to display all of the entries for the argument that follows this option.

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