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I want to know what is the role of etc in man command.

but, does not find etc in man.

$ man etc
No manual entry for etc

I am using CentOS. The details are below

$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)

Thank you for reading!

asari-mtr
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    read [FHS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard) – ymonad Aug 29 '17 at 02:30
  • `/etc` is a directory (folder). `man` is for commands, not the directory structure. `man cat`. – Ken White Aug 29 '17 at 02:30
  • There is no description about FHS in `man`? – asari-mtr Aug 29 '17 at 02:36
  • @asari-mtr, not shipped with `man` itself. Which pages your system includes is specific to that individual operating system, meaning only someone with CentOS 7.3 (or reviewing contents of its packages) can answer this question. (BTW, on some systems this is `man filesystem` or `man hier`). – Charles Duffy Aug 29 '17 at 02:39
  • @asari-mtr, ...and anyhow -- StackOverflow's scope is restricted to questions about writing software. This might belong on [unix.se] or [SuperUser](https://superuser.com/), but it's off-topic here. See the "unique to software development" clause in https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic (and note that it's connected to the other requirements with "and", not "or"). – Charles Duffy Aug 29 '17 at 02:40
  • @CharlesDuffy Thank you for comment. I made a mistake in scope. Is it better to delete this question? – asari-mtr Aug 29 '17 at 03:20
  • and `man hier` is what I was looking for. Thank you – asari-mtr Aug 29 '17 at 03:22

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