OK Try th comman apropos  at the prompt, it gives you a list of man pages to look 
through that contain reference to parameters that you give the command

ie

> apropos bash

Gives a huge list!!

Hope this helps

si
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:48:08 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.


> "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> > 
> > That was not what I meant but, I guess it will do it! ;-)
> > [I used to love DOS batch files!]
> > 
> > As I have heard and felt Linux contains a "miriade"/"pletora" of commands
> > and I would like to find sources/resources for a better understanding of
> > this system... and what is quite bad... not all of them have a man page
> > (or info page) to help us! (as a volunteer translator/reviewer at ldp-br
> > [man pages] I could feel that!).
> > 
> > But then again...it's hard to find a 'command' you've never heard of!
> > 
> > But I'd better take your suggestion as a smooth (?) start!
> > 
> > tks
> > 
> > []s Ricardo Castanho
> 
> You may have read this, and since you are coming from from the DOS
> world, the DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO may prove helpful.
>   
> Larry
> 
> 
> > >Read at
> > >http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
> > >
> > >and find all about linux resources included in bash.
> > >
> > >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST)
> > >> "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 

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