Bug 250217 - Perl re and re network driver man page conflict
Summary: Perl re and re network driver man page conflict
Status: Closed Works As Intended
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Mateusz Piotrowski
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Reported: 2020-10-09 09:39 UTC by Maigurs
Modified: 2020-10-09 12:54 UTC (History)
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Description Maigurs 2020-10-09 09:39:16 UTC
When searching for re (re0) network adapter driver man page I found re - Perl program to alter regular expressions behavior. 
It is a bit confusing as other drivers can be found in this way (ath, em as an example)
Comment 1 Andriy Gapon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-10-09 11:16:30 UTC
What do you mean by a conflict?
Do you know about manual page sections?
Do you know about man -a?
The same name can be re-used in different sections for different purposes.
Comment 2 Mateusz Piotrowski freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-10-09 12:33:02 UTC
This is expected behavior. Please see the description of the -s flag in the man(1) manual page. It explains why "re" first matches the re(1) utility instead of the re(4) driver.

Also, remember that you can always force man(1) to open a manual page from a specific section. In your case it would look like this:

    $ man 4 re

Hope it helps :)
Comment 3 Maigurs 2020-10-09 12:38:41 UTC
Thanks for pointing this!

Best regards
Comment 4 Maigurs 2020-10-09 12:51:55 UTC
(In reply to Andriy Gapon from comment)
I did not know that names can be reused.
Apologies for wasted bits and time.
Comment 5 Mateusz Piotrowski freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-10-09 12:54:03 UTC
(In reply to Maigurs from comment #4)

It's fine!

Perhaps there could be a handbook section about the basics of navigating around manual pages...