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My googling skills are failing me. Can anyone help explain what the "(1)" after SSH means? I guess I always thought it was a footnote marker or something (mainl

• jph 4y ago
  The (1) means Unix manual pages, section 1. The "ssh(1)" means "read about ssh in man page section 1". Section 1 is for general commands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page Pages are traditionally referred to using the notation "name(section)": for example, ftp(1). The section refers to different ways the topic might be referenced. 1 General commands 2 System calls 3 Library functions 4 Special files such as devices /dev 5 File formats and conventions 6 Games and screensavers 7 Miscellaneous 8 System administration commands and daemons
  • e12e 4y ago
    In this case, running "man 1 ssh" is likely the same as "man ssh" (ssh only has a man page in section 1). Many systems will have separate pages for for example "man 1 crontab" and "man 5 crontab".