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Re: Searching man pages




$ man man

At this (Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:49:46AM +0000) day, 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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| a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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