to be clear, i actually just meant a quick way to search the toybox help --- a way to ask toybox "which of your commands have something to do with $x". not an actual "grep the man pages". (which i don't think *needs* a precomputed database in 2024, even if it did in 1994. tbh, i'm pretty sure aix didn't have a database in 1994 --- it was impossibly slow.)
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 16:10 Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > On 3/17/24 15:10, Ivo van Poorten wrote: > >> In THEORY each man page has a "name" section with a one line > >> description, and there should be a way to emit them all, but if > >> there's a standard way to do it without writing a shell script I > >> dunno what it is. I generally just do > > > > It looks like apropos is just man -k. > ... > > Lots of not so useful output though: > > > > $ apropos ls | wc -l > > 548 > > $ man -k ls | wc -l > > 548 > > And "man -k ." lists them all. Good to know. > > $ man -k . | wc -l > 8645 > > Yeah, lots of debris, but that's a distro issue. No obvious way to limit > it by > section either... > > $ man -k . | sort -t'(' -k2,2n | less > > Eh, sort of reasonable-ish? Assuming you care about allcm, bibdoiadd and > blueman-report... > > Thanks, > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > Toybox@lists.landley.net > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net >
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