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?

  • hascatEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • mrkite
      3·
      1 year ago

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