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Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by Arnavion on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @03:05PM (#27532214)
It's the same on Linux, depending on what manpages you have installed. free(1) is the binary. free(3) and free(3p) are the C function.

If you have more than one installed, `man` might decide to show the first one or it may interactively ask you to pick one, depending on whether it's been configured to be "posixly correct" or not.

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Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by rjzzleep on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @11:20PM (#27535838)
procps may not be installed by default on BSDs or VMS or whatever other *nix flavour the person has. But then again quite a few of those systems also don't use bash as default shell(or at least didn't use to), so when the person above asks about "writing a bash script to just do" it's safe to make some assumptions about the target audience.
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