At 25 Jul 2002 14:15:16 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
A valuable sidekick to man is apropos, which will search through the
manual page names and summaries.
note that man -k will search apropos. eg:
~ man -k emacs
etags (1)- generate tag file for Emacs, vi
gnuclient (1)- Server
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 21:07, Angus Lees wrote:
At 25 Jul 2002 14:15:16 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
A valuable sidekick to man is apropos, which will search through the
manual page names and summaries.
note that man -k will search apropos. eg:
... which becomes obvious when you read the man
Hello everyone
to REALLY make google find all those hidden linux nuggets try
http://www.google.com/linux and the google search engine defaults to
linux on all its searches and ignores M$ stuff
Richard Neal
Kent: Well,
Joseph Tandl wrote:
Can you point me to website(s) or person(s) with such knowledge?
Possibly the single most useful thing I have ever learned from this
mailing list is the existence of the command apropos. You type:
apropos keyword
(apropos unzip for example) and it will search all the
I am exploring Linux and, because I am a complete greenhorn (with Linux and
programming of any kind), I need to find documentation for all simple line commands
that are needed to open, unzip, move, compile, save, etc, files in text mode.
I am working with Red Hat 7.3, for which I had to
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:34, Joseph Tandl wrote:
I am exploring Linux and, because I am a complete greenhorn (with Linux and
programming of any kind), I need to find documentation for all simple line commands
that are needed to open, unzip, move, compile, save, etc, files in text mode.
I
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Joseph Tandl wrote:
I am exploring Linux and, because I am a complete greenhorn (with
Linux and programming of any kind), I need to find documentation for all
simple line commands that are needed to open, unzip, move, compile,
save, etc, files in text mode.
I am
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:39, Tony Green wrote:
Most of the time, you can use man $command ('man gzip' for example) to
get details on how it works.
The problem with man, though, is that you need to know the actual
command you want to use first. A valuable sidekick to man is apropos,
which will
