Something like 'apropos /bin/bash' doesn't do anything useful anyway. The 'whatis' program sounds closer to what you want, but needs to be invoked as 'whatis bash' rather than 'whatis /bin/bash'.
So, it sounds like I have two bugs here: 1) apropos reopens and rescans the database for every command-line argument, which is inefficient; 2) whatis doesn't do the right thing when given the full path to an executable as an argument (compare the change to man in man-db 2.5.7 that made this work for that program). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/927028 Title: 'apropos' maxes out CPU when run with '/bin/*' as argument To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/927028/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
