Intro(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros Intro(5)NAME
Intro, intro - introduction to miscellany
DESCRIPTION
Among the topics presented in this section are:
Standards The POSIX (IEEE) Standards and the X/Open Specifica‐
tions are described on the standards page.
Environments The user environment (environ), the subset of the user
environment that depends on language and cultural con‐
ventions (locale), the large file compilation environ‐
ment (lfcompile), and the transitional compilation
environment (lfcompile64) are described.
Macros The macros to format Reference Manual pages (man and
mansun) as well as other text format macros (me, mm,
and ms) are described.
Characters Tables of character sets (ascii, charmap, eqnchar, and
iconv), file format notation (formats), file name pat‐
tern matching (fnmatch), and regular expressions (regex
and regexp) are presented.
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