find / -name "rpm.*" Or, if you have "locate" running, try:
locate 'rpm.*' -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Applications & Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225 This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Man formatting problem > > > -u didn't work. > > Gave a whole bunch of messages. But when I used the -u option on a > manual that was good, I got the same messages. > > BTW, I had to write some code to do this, but is there a native way to > do, in effect a "dir rpm.* /s" ? > > When I use the -R option with LS, it doesn't seem to like the > specification of a file name or generic name. > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/27 2:02 PM >>> > Perhaps: -u?? > > From man --help: > > usage: man [-c|-f|-k|-w|-tZT device] [-adlhu7V] [-Mpath] [-Ppager] > [-Slist] > [-msystem] [-pstring] [-Llocale] [-eextension] [section] > page > ... > -a, --all find all matching manual pages. > -d, --debug emit debugging messages. > -e, --extension limit search to extension type > `extension'. > -f, --whatis equivalent to whatis. > -k, --apropos equivalent to apropos. > -w, --where, --location print physical location of man page(s). > -l, --local-file interpret `page' argument(s) as local > filename(s). > -u, --update force a cache consistency check. > -r, --prompt string provide the `less' pager with a prompt > -c, --catman used by catman to reformat out of date cat > pages. > -7, --ascii display ASCII translation of certain > latin1 > chars. > -t, --troff use groff to format pages. > -T, --troff-device device use groff with selected device. > -Z, --ditroff use groff and force it to produce ditroff. > -X, --gxditview use groff and display through gditview > (X11): > -X = -TX75, -X100 = -TX100, -X100-12 = > -TX100-12. > -D, --default reset all options to their default values. > -M, --manpath path set search path for manual pages to > `path'. > -P, --pager pager use program `pager' to display output. > -S, --sections list use colon separated section list. > -m, --systems system search for man pages from other unix > system(s). > -L, --locale locale define the locale for this particular man > search. > -p, --preprocessor string string indicates which preprocessors to > run. > e - [n]eqn p - pic t - tbl > g - grap r - refer v - vgrind > -V, --version show version. > -h, --help show this usage message. > > > > > > > Tom Duerbusch > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > iscity.com> cc: > Sent by: Linux on Subject: [LINUX-390] > Man formatting problem > 390 Port > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > > > 05/27/2003 12:59 > PM > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port > > > > > > > I shot my self in the foot....again. > > I'm bringing up Suse 8 with the default installion. The manuals kept > referring to installing with a minimum of 256 MB or 560 MBs. But now > that I had a system up, I started bring down the size to see how small > it can be and still run. > > In all cases, I was running without a swap file. > > I could boot the system at 16 MBs and it would come up fine (12 MBs > wouldn't boot). So I logged on and tried some commands. > > "top" worked fine > "man top" worked fine > "man rpm" failed > > It seems that the first time you issue a "man" for a particular topic, > extra work, is done and is saved. Subsequent executions, even after > an > IPL, don't experience the "great" use of CPU that is done initially. > > However, in 16 MB, "man rpm" failed. And it will now fail even with a > machine size of 256MBs. Apparently, whatever was partically done with > the "rpm" man pages isn't going to get redone. "man rpm" now fails > consistantly. > > I have considered reinstalling Suse 8 and just learn not to IPL with > such limited storage. > > I have also considered ftp'ng the man page from another Linux 8 > machine. > > But there must be a better way. > > Is there a way to force the "man" command to redo the man page in > question? > > "man man" doesn't show any syntax that may do this. Perhaps there is > another command that will? > > Perhaps whatever process there is to build a man page would be needed > to > "cold start" this process. > > Thanks > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting >