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Re: Searching man pages



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...

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