intro(7)

💖 intro(7) — the whole vibe of Section 7, bestie 💖

okay so real quick: this is the man page for the intro page, in section 7 of the manual. it's literally an introduction to the overview-and-miscellany section. yes, an intro to the section you're already in. we love a meta moment 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

intro — introduction to overview and miscellany section

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so Section 7 of the manual is where the big-picture stuff lives, and it's giving very "everything else but make it organized":

• it gives you overviews on various topics 🌈
• it describes conventions and protocols — the agreed-upon social rules of computer land 🤝
• it covers character set standards (yes the alphabet lore of computers) 🔤
• it lays out the standard filesystem layout, aka where everybody puts their stuff 📁
• and then it just... holds miscellaneous other things. a little grab bag. a tote bag of knowledge 🎀

basically if section 1 is the commands and section 3 is the C library, section 7 is the vibes. the lore. the context. 👑

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📝 NOTES 📝

🫶 Authors and copyright conditions

okay important thing, no cap: to find out who wrote a given man page and under what copyright conditions, you gotta look at the header of the manual page source. the source! go look at the actual file, bestie, it's right there at the top 🔍

and here's the crucial part — these can be different from page to page! 😭 don't assume one author, one license, one anything. every single page can have its own whole situation going on. check each one. each one. ✨

not me finding out the license changes per page... anyway check the source header every time, fr fr 💀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• standards(7) — the icon, the blueprint, go read it 💜

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and that's the page!! short, sweet, icon behavior, ate, no crumbs left 🌸

little sign-off for the record keepers: this one's from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2025-05-17 🎀 that's the version and the date and we're putting respect on it ✨💖🦋