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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How do you discover system builtins for C functions? The man pages for the C functions on Linux are great, but only if you know the name of the function. Is there a way to see a detailed table of contents, or to browse Manpages on a Linux distro?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

man -k xyz will search for any man page with xyz in it. You can also do man stdio to see what's in the stdio library.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's also apropos which does the same thing but for some reason is easier for me to remember.