begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:35:36AM -0800:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> All the world is not Linux(tm).
True.
% man apropos | grep -- -k | head -1
apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) com-
% uname -a
SunOS lancre 5.10 Generic_118833-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
...same response on Solaris 8.
> However, that is good to know.
>
> I thought that "man -k" predates apropos.
<aol/>
I thought apropos was an alias for "man -k" that someone turned into a
command, but I don't know why I think that. Someone I respected probably
said something in passing, and it passed the plausibility filter and
ended up in the "unattributed facts" database...
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