On 11/28/06, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The 'apropos' command is quite useful if you think you know what you might be looking for in terms of manpages.
You'd think it would be. I like having it around, but I can't really think of anytime that I've used it and it's helped me. I always type 'apropos something' and I get back a buttload of results in which my search term is only something embedded within a larger word (e.g. "six" in "posix") or programmer-friendly / user-unfriendly stuff, or perl pods. I can't think of anytime that I've found something using apropos. As for the ntpd being man 8 or man 1, why would there be this difference? Most of you are using a Red Hat derivative, so this could be just a distro difference. Or maybe the whole world does it one way, and only Gentoo is different. Or... ? -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
