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Re: Searching man pages



On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Boaz Rymland wrote:


And to be of better help yet, try:

http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/99/06/msg00237.html


--Ariel

> 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:
> >
> > hellopeople.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > The opposite of a correct statement isa false statement. The opposite of
> > a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
> >       -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
> 
> 

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