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Re: Searching man pages



Hi

Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> 
> Oded Arbel <odeda-linux-il@betalfa.org.il> writes:
> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> Well, I waited for some time to see how many people will mention man
> -k and how many will tell you to "man man" without referring to "man
> man" themselves. I suppose by now you have read "man man" and found
> "man -K" ;-).
> 
> There are pther useful options there, like -a, -P, -W...

I must add that sometimes man -k is not enough.
My ways for finding documentation:
man -k
'SEE ALSO' section of a related man page
less /var/lib/dpkg/<package>.list
/usr/doc/<package>
zgrep in /usr/man/...
zgrep in /usr/info
less /var/lib/dpkg/available (descriptions of all available packages)
here I go on-line and use a search engine (and still haven't decided on
a good one).

The places I gave are on debian. Can a RH user give the relevant?

Also, debian has a package called dwww, that is supposed to make all
available doc readable through WWW (perhaps searchable?).
Haven't tried it.

> 
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> Oleg Goldshmidt          goldshmt@netvision.net.il   
> BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM)     oleg@bfr.co.il
> 
> 
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