I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork
, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk
extension, however, the section page number was 3am
, instead of just 3
.
What does 3am
means?
man
I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork
, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk
extension, however, the section page number was 3am
, instead of just 3
.
What does 3am
means?
Best Answer
It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (
gawk
) extension module. The complete list is:I would guess the
am
stands for awk module.