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The Linux man-pages project

The Linux man-pages project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user programs. It provides manual pages in the following sections:

(Note that many of the man pages on a Linux system, especially those in sections other than 2 and 3, come from other packages.)

For information on downloading the latest version of man-pages, look here.

You can browse the manual pages online here.

If you find a bug in a man page, then please report it.

If you want to contribute to work on man-pages, have a look here.

For a list of changes in various man-pages releases, see the changelog.

For information about translations of man-pages, take a look here.

The man-pages maintainer is Michael Kerrisk (mtk in the changelog; mtk.manpages-AT-gmail.com; blog).