Manual page headings

These are the headings used to organise the content of the manual page for a command. A manual page may not contain information under every heading but the NAME, SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION are available for every command.

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• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• OPTIONS
• ENVIRONMENT
• EXAMPLES
• FILES
• SEE ALSO
• WARNINGS
• DIAGNOSTICS
• BUGS

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