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What is this format specifier?
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Wouldn't
man 3 printf
do the same thing without the quotes?Yup that definitely does the same thing.
If anyone else is wondering why the
3
is there, it's because usually you won't find just oneprintf
. You have theprintf
user command, theprintf
function from the standard C library, and POSIX manual entries for both theprintf
user command and C function. The id number is then an identifier for the corresponding section of theprintf
entry, and you can list all of them by doing aman -f printf
.Awesome, I think I'm gonna consider aliasing
man
toman -f
lol. Can you think of any compelling reason not to?Actually, nevermind, I misunderstood you.
-f
just lists the pages, it doesn't print all of their content.Nit: 3 is the manual section in which to look for the named entry (aka page), not a section of the entry.
Wrote it in an awkward way but yeah I meant to say the section where you can find the corresponding entry 😬