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geriksontoday at 11:16 AM1 replyview on HN

> (... less common section numbers)

One very important section number is 5 - it's for file formats. So if you forget the crontab format, you need to invoke `man 5 crontab` to read about it.


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linsomniactoday at 12:14 PM

... because if you do `man crontab` you get section 1, which does not document the crontab fields.

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