On 11/30/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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...
Hey, guys. I think I first came across "apropos" as a command in
4.1BSD, circa 1980. A check of my 4.4BSD manual set says "Apropos
first appeared in 3.0BSD". It strikes me as a Bill Joy-ism, which
would be appropriate since Joy was one of the main producers of
3.0BSD.
For the proof-readers among you, note that "apropos" has 2 p's while
"appropriate" has 3.
carl
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