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Re: Searching man pages



On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Oded Arbel wrote:


man -k key
whatis key


--Ariel


P.S.  Make sure that makewhatis -w  was ran once after the system was
      installed.

> 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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