Recommendation: good file compare program ?

Richard Mancusi vrman49 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 14:13:40 UTC 2007


On 10/30/07, Owen Townend <bowbowbow at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
>

Perfect! - tnx - now I can retire my old UNIX list
fyi  apropos " "|wc -l returns 4683 for me
Looks like I got too carried away loading packages.

-rich




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