[已解决][问题]man 5 crontab 和 man crontab 有啥区别？

[marathoner]

man 5 crontab 和 man crontab 有啥区别？

1. 为啥中间有个数字5?

2. 啥情况下会用到数字？

[eexpress]

manpages 有好多pages。就这意思。不同的目录有不同的man。
同名。

[bones7456]

你需要看看 man man

[marathoner]

多谢eexpress、bones7456

man man 中的内容

The table below shows the section numbers of the manual followed by the types of pages they contain.

1 Executable programs or shell commands
2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
3 Library calls (functions within program libraries)
4 Special files (usually found in /dev)
5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
6 Games
7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conven-
tions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)
8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
9 Kernel routines [Non standard]

[某怪]

man 5 crontab是直接从crontab帮助文件的第5章节开始显示
man crontab 则是显示全部crontab帮助文件，从头开始显示的

SEE ALSO
crontab(5), cron(8)