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Package: man-db
Version: 2.7.6.1-4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/apropos.1.gz
Mention the best way to not only search for man pages, but also show
their contents.
Just like one can do
$ aptitude search 256
$ aptitude show ~n256
So for apropos that would probably be
$ apropos 256 #and then if happy with the results, do
$ apropos 256|sed 's/ .*//'|xargs man
(Thus reading up on lots of SHA256 related programs installed on his
system, all via a one liner.)
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 08:07:27AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Mention the best way to not only search for man pages, but also show
> their contents.
apropos does a particular job (searching for and displaying short
descriptions), which isn't this job. Showing the contents of manual
pages is handled by man(1), and that already documents how to do the
thing you're asking for: using your example, 'man --regex 256'.
I don't intend to add specific documentation of this to apropos(1); it
already has a cross-reference to man(1).
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