Recommendation: good file compare program ?

[Owen Townend]

Hey,
  An easy way of getting the brief description of all man pages would be
simply `apropos " "`. All command names have a space between the name
and the chapter number.
(Apropos and man -k are synonyms). 
For me `apropos " "|wc -l` returns 2753 :)

cheers,
Owen.

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:35 -0500, Richard Mancusi wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 29 October 2007, 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:
> >
> > And another good command to know is:
> >
> > apropos  fax
> >
> > which gave me:
> 
> How would you get a complete list of the man pages with the brief
> description?
> 
> tnx
> -rich
>