[clug] Circumflex

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 09:00:18 UTC 2017


That would be a glob or a regex.


> On 2017/Aug/17, at 6:25 PM, Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> I was reading about manual section numbers. Then I came across '^'. Where is it explained?
> 
> {
> You can tell what sections a term falls in with man -k (equivalent to the apropos command). It will do substring matches too (e.g. it will show sprintf if you run man -k printf), so you need to use ^term to limit it:
> }
> 
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3586/what-do-the-numbers-in-a-man-page-mean#3587
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