AIX man Command
See
for an online reference for AIX 5.3 commands.
- Click on "AIX documentation" on left-hand sidebar.
- Expand "Commands reference".
- Expand "Alphabetical list of commands".
When you see some reference to man with a digit, e.g.
For the format of sshd2_config, see sshd2_config(5).
this means to see "section" 5 of the sshd2_config command.
Here's how you would specify the "section" in that man command,
man 5 sshd2_config
(of course, this relies on ones $MANPATH to include /usr/local/man)
I was looking for documentation on the UsePrivilegeSeparation option
that's suppose to be in that man page, but I couldn't find it. It's
especially hard to find stuff inside more because you can't ignore
case on find commands. One way out of this is to use -c on the man
command, which says to output stuff with cat instead of more. This
way, you can grep -i it, e.g.
man -c 5 sshd2_config | grep -i privi
Under Solaris, this would be
man - 5 sshd2_config | grep -i privi
Under any Unix, you could
PAGER=cat man 5 sshd2_config | grep -c cat
The sections are
1 = User Commands and daemons
2 = System calls and kernel services
3 = Subroutines
4 = Special files, device drivers, and hardware
5 = Configuration files
6 = Games
7 = Miscellaneous commands
8 = Administrative commands and daemons
If you just want to switch to a different man directory temporarily,
instead of modifying your MANPATH (which normally isn't even set),
you can
man -M /usr/local/man sshd
for example.