A lista de secções abaixo pode ser obtida dando o comando "man 7 man". Quando se pretende consultar uma secção específica do manual (por ex. 3) deve-se acompanhar o comando man do numero da secção. Por exemplo, "man 7 pow" procura a função pow na secção 3. Esta lista serve para se saber em que secção está a informação pretendida.
1 Commands
Those commands that can be executed by
the user from within a shell.
2 System calls
Those functions which must be performed
by the kernel.
3 Library calls
Most of the libc functions, such as
qsort(3))
4 Special files
Files found in /dev)
5 File formats and conventions
The format for /etc/passwd and other
human-readable files.
6 Games
7 Macro packages and conventions
A description of the standard file system
layout, network protocols, ASCII and
other character codes, this man page, and
other things.
8 System management commands
Commands like mount(8), many of which
only root can execute.
9 Kernel routines
This is an obsolete manual section. Once
it was thought a good idea to document
the Linux kernel here, but in fact very
little has been documented, and the docu-
mentation that exists is outdated
already. There are better sources of
information for kernel developers.