intro(7)

intro7

Miscellaneous information pages

Overview

The manual pages in section 7 contain miscellaneous documentation.

ascii(7)

Map of ASCII character set.

environ(7)

User environment.

eqn(7)

Eqn language reference for mandoc(1).

glob(7)

Shell-style pattern matching.

hier(7)

File system hierarchy.

hostname(7)

Hostname resolution rules.

library-specs(7)

Shared library name specifications.

man(7)

Man language reference.

mandoc_char(7)

Mandoc special characters.

mdoc(7)

Mdoc language reference.

mirroring-ports(7)

How to build a mirror for ports distfiles.

operator(7)

C operator precedence.

packages(7)

Overview of the binary package system.

packages-specs(7)

Binary package names specifications.

pkgpath(7)

Ports tree location for a package build.

ports(7)

Contributed applications.

re_format(7)

POSIX regular expressions.

roff(7)

Roff language reference for mandoc(1).

script(7)

Interpreter script execution.

securelevel(7)

The securelevel kernel state and its effects.

sndio(7)

Interface to audio and MIDI.

symlink(7)

Symbolic link handling.

tbl(7)

Tbl language reference for mandoc(1).

term(7)

Conventions for naming terminal types.

Releases

61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 14 times.

  1. 2.1–2.3
  2. 2.4
  3. 2.5
  4. 2.6–2.9
  5. 3.0–3.1
  6. 3.2–3.3
  7. 3.4–4.1
  8. 4.2–4.5
  9. 4.6–4.8
  10. 4.9–5.0
  11. 5.1–5.4
  12. 5.5–5.7
  13. 5.8–6.1
  14. 6.2–6.3
  15. 6.4–8.0

History

An intro manual for section 7 appeared in 4.2BSD.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.