Part of the devrel life is the booth. When I'm boothing, I like to have my laptop there and open to a cool project or demo. If I'm lucky, there wil...
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My question is a bit off-topic. What's that
(1), or more in general(#)that comes right after the name of a command?I've seen it on multiple times about *nix command line tools, but growing with a Windows background I've never got the grasp of it 😅
Short answer: manpages
Long answer: superuser.com/questions/297702/wha...
So it's essentially a way to tell what kind of command we're talking about, is it?
I guess it just answers the question "are we talking about a program or a function in a C library" in case they have the same name and have direct relationship with each other.
The example is there,
mkdir(1)is a program that creates directories. This program's primary objective is to usemkdir(2), a function insys/stat.hThis is fascinating. In brief, any other old Unix/X11 tools worth mentioning?
That's cool! I'll keep it in mind if I ever find myself holding a booth for my company. I'm currently interning for a startup, but I'm only one of two on the tech team, so it's best to keep an open mind about what responsibilities I can expect to have; literally anything can be asked of you. Thanks again.
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