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Re: Searching man pages



Well, anyone of the previous "reply'ers" didn't mention that for "man -k
.." to work you must first run "makewhatis" on your computer (as root),
AFAIK.
BTW, the command "apropos" is equivalent to "man -k ..."

Boaz.

Oded Arbel wrote:
> 
> hello people.
> 
> Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
> for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that
> does a certain function, but i don't know what it's name (or even if such
> a program exist on my system) so I'll want to search the 'Description:'
> section and look for keywords I specify - is this possible at all ?
> 
> Oded
> 
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