What does grep(1) in manual of grep means? [duplicate]

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Why do programs in Unix-like environments have numbers after their name? 

GREP(1)

I see this when i man grep, what does the 1 mean?

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Soluzione

grep(1) means grep is a command line. There are 8 categories of man pages:

  1. General Commands
  2. System Calls
  3. Subroutines
  4. Special Files
  5. File Formats
  6. Games
  7. Macros and Conventions
  8. Maintenence Commands

thta's the number you see in man

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