The example on page 130 shows that the man pages for crontab appear in Sections 1 and 5 of the system manual. Explain how you can use man to determine which sections of the system manual contain a manual page with a given name.

What will be an ideal response?

Use man with the –f option (equivalent to whatis) to list man entries for the
argument that follows this option. Alternately, use man with the –a option
to display all the entries for the argument that follows this option.

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Which of the following are STL containers types?

a) Series Carton b) Associative containers c) Fraternal container d) Sequence containers e) Containers adapter f) Template classes g) Generic Template Collectives

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How does the Overlay/High Pass technique work?

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