Recommendation: good file compare program ?

John Dangler jdangler at terremark.com
Mon Oct 29 13:09:58 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 07:08 -0400, Owen Townend wrote:
> svobi,
>         Another thing most newbs aren't aware of is 'man -k'. It is a
> way to
> search the man page command names and brief description. E.g. 'man -k
> compare' returns for me this:

[snip]
There's an old command that has been around for a while that is the
equivalent of this that used to be taught in beginning classes called
apropos, which does the same thing.  i.e. - apropos compare (the word is
a rough equivalent to the question 'what is appropriate for this?'
[/snip]
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