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What does .Er mean in a man page?

in a man page I'm editing I see the following:

.Er ENOENT ENOENT

what exactly does that mean? I looked in the man(1) man page but don't see anything about how to read the raw files.

Solution

  • Take a look at HPUX man(5):

    .ER errorname punctuation

    • errorname is an error name that corresponds to a value assigned to errno by a function and described in the ERRORS section of a manpage. It is displayed in roman, enclosed in square brackets. For example, .ER EIO . is displayed as [EIO].