Re: Searching man pages

1999-06-10 Thread Haim Tzadok
Oded first try doing man on man it will give you all the options that can be followed by the man command. do : man -k keyword # whereas keyword is a word that should be close tothe command that deals with it. Haim Tzadok-S.A email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searching man pages

1999-06-10 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ? for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that does a certain function, but i don't know what it's name (or even if such

Re: Searching man pages

1999-06-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
YBd less /var/lib/dpkg/available (descriptions of all available packages) YBd here I go on-line and use a search engine (and still haven't decided on YBd a good one). Google is the clear winner on "relevance". Usually, the first or the second match is what you need, if you bother to express you

Re: NT vs Linux

1999-06-10 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Oren Shomron wrote: Vadim Vygonets wrote: Quoth Yedidya Bar-david on Thu, Jun 10, 1999: I must add, that there are things that e2fsck can't fix at all - e.g. I once had a hardware problem, and fsck moved some files to /lost+found, with permissions that didn't let me delete