On 11/29/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> Some people who write man pages haven't read the documentation on how
> to write a man page (man 7 man) and manage to screw up the data that
> goes into making the "apropos" data base. Especially Larry Wall, with
> his perl pod. Its really quite a mess, with accretions over two or
> three decades.
Um, is there a reason why nobody has mentioned the "-k" option to man?
It has the advantage that it tells you what section the page is in.
Example at end of mail.
As an aside, I *detest* programs like Perl and Tcl that crap manpages
for every stinking Perl or Tcl module into my system directories.
I presume that deep down inside you know that "apropos" and "man -k"
are synonyms.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ man man | grep -- -k | head -1
-k Equivalent to apropos.
carl
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