Linux commands

Gary W. Swearingen garys at opusnet.com
Fri Apr 14 00:23:58 UTC 2006


Thilo Six <T.Six at gmx.de> writes:

> with apropos you can search the manpages.

Some prefer "man -k", which does the same.

> e.g.:
> $ apropos ubuntu
>
> will give you all manpages, where ubuntu is mentioned.

Only where it's mentioned in the "NAME" line.  For the whole manpage,
put this in script.  Mine's named "mangrep".

  find $( manpath | sed s/:/\ /g ) -print0 | xargs -0 zgrep -EH "$@"


BTW, I just learned that kubuntu grep's -Z is very different than
FreeBSD's.




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