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environ(5) -- user environment
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An array of strings called the environment is made available by exec(2) when a process begins. By convention, these strings have the form name=value. The following names are used by various commands (listed in alphabetical order): =value. The following names are used by various commands (listed in alphabetical order): value. The following names are used by various commands (listed in alphabetical ... |
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Man pages are divided into section depending on topic. There are 9 different
sections numbered from 1 (General Commands) to 9 (Kernel Developer's Manual).
You can get an introduction to each topic by typing
man intro
In other words, to get the intro to general commands, type
man 1 intro
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