Comment on What is this format specifier?

• AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup that definitely does the same thing.

  If anyone else is wondering why the 3 is there, it’s because usually you won’t find just one printf. You have the printf user command, the printf function from the standard C library, and POSIX manual entries for both the printf user command and C function. The id number is then an identifier for the corresponding section of the printf entry, and you can list all of them by doing a man -f printf.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Awesome, I think I’m gonna consider aliasing man to man -f lol. Can you think of any compelling reason not to?

    Actually, nevermind, I misunderstood you. -f just lists the pages, it doesn’t print all of their content.

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  • ono@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The id number is then an identifier for the corresponding section of the printf entry,

    Nit: 3 is the manual section in which to look for the named entry (aka page), not a section of the entry.

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    • AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wrote it in an awkward way but yeah I meant to say the section where you can find the corresponding entry 😬

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