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Unix manual pages are gathered into several sections. A section is related to a given topic:
*section 1: user commands that may be started by everyone *section 2: system calls, that is, functions provided by the kernel *section 3: subroutines, that is, library functions *section 4: devices (files in /dev) *section 5: file format descriptions, e.g. /etc/passwd *section 6: games *section 7: miscellaneous *section 8: system administration tools that only root can execute *section 9: another (Linux specific) place for kernel routine documentation *section l: (deprecated) new documentation, that may be moved to a more appropriate section *section n: (deprecated) old documentation, that may be kept for a grace period *section o: (deprecated) local documentation referring to this particular system As two different sections can contain two man pages with the same name, we note manuals as follows: man_page(section). Therefore, crontab(5) identifies the crontab manual from the section 5 (to be opposed to crontab(1)).
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