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Re: Are the 'How to' documents present as man pages?

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Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date
Sep 16, 2017, 12:05 UTC
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 05:17:35PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
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>> References to other man pages generally use round brackets, for
>> example git-merge(1).
>
> I didn't know they had different meanings for different brackets in man
> pages. [snip]

Man pages in general use only round brackets to refer to another man page with the given section (like stat(1) or stat(2)).

Square brackets have no special meaning, but are useful for references like URLs.

Regards Simon

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