Recommendation: good file compare program ?

[Owen Townend]

John,
  I always seem forget apropos :)

  Oh, there's also 'whatis' but it returns only an exact command name
match in the same format as 'man -k' and 'apropos' (which seem to be
synonyms). Handy when you want a short description of a command not
easily searched eg ls, df, at, etc...

cheers,
Owen.

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 09:09 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
> 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]