man.archlinux.org(7) | 16 |Arch Linux manual pages | 17 |man.archlinux.org(7) | 18 |
NAME
24 | man.archlinux.org — manual pages from Arch Linux packages 25 |SYNOPSIS
29 |!archman KEYWORDS...
30 |DESCRIPTION
34 |35 | This website is a repository of all manual pages available in the 36 | Arch Linux packages. 37 | There are {{ count_man_pages }} manual pages and {{ count_symlinks }} symbolic links from 38 | {{ count_pkgs_with_mans }} packages, another {{ count_pkgs_without_mans }} packages do not contain 39 | any indexable manual pages. 40 |
41 | 42 |43 | Traditionally, manual pages are organized into several sections. Read the introduction 44 | pages for each section: 45 | intro(1), 46 | intro(2), 47 | intro(3), 48 | intro(4), 49 | intro(5), 50 | intro(6), 51 | intro(7), 52 | intro(8). 53 | Some packages provide their manuals in a subsection (e.g. 3ssl) and some use non-standard sections 54 | (e.g. 0 or n). 55 |
56 |USAGE
60 | There are several ways to find a specific manual page: 61 |-
62 |
- Use the search form to search for keywords in the names and
63 | descriptions of manual pages and packages. You can also the
!archman
DuckDuckGo 64 | bang to search Arch manual pages.
65 | - Use the listing form to list all manual pages matching the 66 | specified filtering and sorting criteria. 67 |
- Manually use the addressing scheme as explained below. 68 |
71 | The manual pages are addressable as
72 | /man/<repo>/<pkgname>/<page>.<section>.<language>.<format>
.
73 | Any part except <page>
is optional:
74 |
-
76 |
<repo>
and<pkgname>
can be used to disambiguate the 77 | page version found in multiple packages. If omitted, manual pages are looked up in package 78 | repositories in the following order: core, extra, community, multilib.
79 | - If
<section>
is missing, you will be redirected to the first manual page 80 | found in sections in the following order: 1, n, l, 8, 6, 3, 0, 2, 5, 7, 4, 9.
81 | - The default language is
en
. Note thaten
is also the fallback 82 | language for pages, which are not available in any other language.
83 | - The default format is
html
(other supported formats aretxt
and 84 |raw
).
85 |
87 | Note that symbolic links, such as bunzip2(1), are 88 | implemented as HTTP redirects with the 302 status code. Symbolic links are included in per-package 89 | listings, such as core/openssl. 90 |
91 |LAST UPDATES
95 | This is just a brief summary of the last updates to the internal database. 96 | {% make_table last_updates class_="styled-table" %} 97 |NOTES
101 | This page is not an actual manual page. It was just made to look like one. 102 |AUTHORS
106 | The project was initially created for the man template on the Arch wiki. 107 | The code is developed in a GitLab repository. 108 |SEE ALSO
112 | There are other manual page websites using different sources and providing different features. 113 | See a list on the 114 | wiki. 115 |{% now "Y-m-d" %} | 122 |Arch Linux | 123 |