From fb2fb4535d4dea6392efb9685eab56a2da9844c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:24:41 +0000 Subject: Document man(1) section selection priority, and correct description of apropos(1) output search order. Suggested by tb@. --- man.1 | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'man.1') diff --git a/man.1 b/man.1 index 67b53d70..116c6dde 100644 --- a/man.1 +++ b/man.1 @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -.\" $Id: man.1,v 1.21 2017/01/31 19:44:04 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.1,v 1.22 2017/03/17 17:24:41 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2007, 2008, 2014 Jason McIntyre -.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2014-2017 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 31 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 17 2017 $ .Dt MAN 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ System maintenance and operation commands. .It 9 Kernel internals. .El +.Pp +If not specified and a match is found in more than one section, +the first match is selected from the following list: +1, 8, 6, 2, 3, 5, 7, 4, 9, 3p. .It Fl T Ar output Select the output format. The default is -- cgit v1.2.3-56-ge451