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Man page

history of UNIX man pages. UNIX and Linux Man Page Repository with nearly 300,000 well formatted man pages. What do the numbers in a man page mean? FreeBSD Manual

What Would You Do? (2008 TV program) What Would You Do? (commonly abbreviated as WWYD, and formerly known as Primetime: What Would You Do? through the program's fifth season) is an American

Names of large numbers such as "zillion", used informally to mean large but unspecified amounts; see indefinite and fictitious numbers. Usage: Short scale: US, English Canada

Benford's law the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading

Numbers Gang traditionally does not operate outside of prisons. The Numbers Gang was started in the late 1800s, possibly for the protection black mineworkers. The origins

man page - Wikipedia Man pages are often referred to as an on-line or online form of software documentation,[1] even though the man command does not require internet access, …
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What do the numbers in a man page mean? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Many answers state that p stands for POSIX, but just witnessing what is installed on my Debian distribution, in some cases p can (also, instead) stand for…
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What do the numbers in a version typically represent (i.e. v1.9.…

I have never encountered software which used a version number where every number delineated by a period represents a single component of the software and…

Meaning of "shallowly immutable" in the documentation of Record … I am reading the documentation of Records and don't understand the term "shallowly immutable". What do we mean by shallowly immutable? And if it's immuta…
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Easy means easy to debug

Easy means easy to debug What does it mean for a framework, library, tool to be “easy”? There are many possible definitions one could use, but my definit…
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Numbers on MacRumors

Numbers Numbers How Tos In Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps for iPhone and iPad, you can use the reading view feature to look at a document witho…
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A By-the-Numbers Guide to Who Is Buying Those New Luxe Condos --…

Buying, By the Numbers I f you live in Manhattan, someone is trying to sell you a condominium in your neighborhood. The spectacular building boom of the …
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What Do the Supremes Mean When They Say "De Novo"?

What Do the Supremes Mean When They Say “De Novo”? Or when they say “sub silentio” or all that other legalese that came up at Monday’s Supreme Court hear…
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don't get too excited [LWN.net]

don't get too excited don't get too excited Do you also have numbers for how much is spent on advertising? I remember how many ads there were for drugs y…

POSIX.1-2013 man pages for Linux [LWN.net] Hello all, The manual pages produced by the Linux man-pages project attempt to document deviations between Linux behavior and the POSIX.1 standard. Howev…
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xkcd: What xkcd Means

{{Title: What does XKCD mean?}} [[One car of two sitting at a red light makes a right turn, then shifts over to the left and makes a left turn to go back…
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What do drone strikes in Moscow, Kyiv signal about the war? | CB…

What do drone strikes in Moscow, Kyiv signal about the war? Kyiv is enduring the worst bombing since the start of the war. Meanwhile, drones strike insid…
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What do the latest migration figures reveal? - BBC News

What do the latest migration figures reveal? There are so many important headlines in the August migration data that it is difficult to know where to beg…
http://www.tarsnap.com/man.html — found via Mwmbl

Tarsnap - Man pages

Tarsnap man pages Like all good UNIX software, Tarsnap includes man pages which document its functionality and its myriad options. After installing the T…
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Man Pages

Man Pages Hi, We recently gained some volunteers to write man pages for the console/daemon KDE apps, and so we've been doing some experimentation with Do…

Re: Man Pages I've been volunteered to be the debian man pages writer/coordinator, though as far as I know, I'm the only one doing it :-) I'll send you a quick followu…
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Man pages (GNU Astronomy Utilities)

GNU Astronomy Utilities Man pages were the Unix method of providing command-line documentation to a program. With GNU Info, see Info the usage of this me…
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Man Pages (GNU Coding Standards)

6.9 Man Pages In the GNU project, man pages are secondary. It is not necessary or expected for every GNU program to have a man page, but some of them do.…