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Man Page Project List

Manual (or manual) pages are more extended references that are used by many utilities in the Unix world and are treated often as official documentation for a specific utility, command, API, or set of APIs. Unlike TLDR pages, which aim to provide a quick reference for particular commands and utilities, manual pages are more extensive documentation and cover more topics.

On Linux, some manual pages are provided a project when built from the project's maintainers, but some are written by people who package a distribution, so there may be differences from distribution to distribution, even within Linux.

This page lists projects that we have man (or manual) pages for. Make a selection below.