On Wed, 02 Sep 2009, Scott Haneda wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote:
>
>> As clearly documented in postconf(5),
>
> How exactly does one get to that man page?
> man postconf
> That of course works.
That "works" because, absent a section specification, man(1) will only
display the first manual page it finds in MANPATH.
> man postconf(5)
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> man postconf5
> No manual entry for postconf5
The correct syntax is documented in the man(1) manpage. :-)
> Does this imply there are version 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well? How do I find
> out?
To see which manual sections contain a 'postconf' page:
% man -wa postconf
/usr/local/man/man1/postconf.1.gz
/usr/local/man/man5/postconf.5.gz
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Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
