Im looking for some kind of C text manual or man pages for C syntax or cockbook which i can check in command line shell mode . Thanks
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From the shell prompt, type: `man man` – wildplasser Jul 08 '17 at 13:54
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not realy system calls and such but real cookbook for C some kind of book – user63898 Jul 08 '17 at 14:25
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You've been here long enough to know you can't ask for library and such recommendations. – Rob Jul 08 '17 at 15:17
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You could use pandoc (available here) to convert pretty much anything that you like the style of into manpages - whether that is HTML, MS-Word documents or ePUB books.
So, take the "GNU C Reference Manual" here, and convert that into manpages with pandoc as follows:
pandoc -V title="C Programming" -V section=1 -s -t man https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/gnu-c-manual.html -o C.1
Then you could copy that to usr/local/share/man/man1 and access it with:
man C
Or, don't mix it in with your system manpages, and instead change your MANPATH environment variable.
Or you could use the "GNU C Library" as your starting point (here), or heck, have them both!
Mark Setchell
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The man page for "C" syntax alone would be huge :-) "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Ritchie is still a thorough and readable way to learn C.
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There are ebook versions. Lmgtfy... If you want something free, qv http://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/c/ – Mischa Jul 08 '17 at 20:41