On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 08:09:14AM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 04:27 AM 12/23/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [in part]:
>
> >I tried that grep command, while trying to find something in that R. H. 5.2 man
> >about my Crystal CS 423x sound card my syntax in /usr/man was:
> >
> >grep Crystal 432x
> >
> >I watched for many minutes as there was no output ( I was in command line).
> >After about five minutes with still no out put :
> >
> > <3fingers>
> >
> > Should I look elsewhere? Is my usage wrong?
>
Kinda.. the grep command you wanted was
grep -R Crystal\ 432x .
or
grep -R "Crystal 432x" .
the -R means recursive and you can either quote the whole thing or
escape the space, an the . means start in the current directory
however, man pages are in a formatting language and are often gzip'd
so man has a built in search command
man -k
or
apropos
(same thing different names)
Some people refuse to use it as they find it worthless, but it works for
me. BUT you're having soundcard problems? you probably want to try that
grep -R in /usr/src/linux/Documentation
hth
greg
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