From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 0:37: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maulwurf.franken.de (maulwurf.franken.de [193.141.110.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D97CD37B42C for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by maulwurf.franken.de via rmail with stdio id for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:37:01 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built DST-May-30) Received: (from tanis@localhost) by gaspode.franken.de (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8K7cFs01615; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:38:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tanis) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:38:15 +0200 From: German Tischler To: Bruce Petro Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Message-ID: <20000920093815.A1055@gaspode.franken.de> References: <381765155.969405532704.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <381765155.969405532704.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com>; from bpetro@usa.com on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:20:02AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:20:02AM +0200, Bruce Petro wrote: > I've looked at man man and I don't see any option to display a list of all available man pages list single line summaries. > > IE: Something like this that I snitched from whatis man but a nice alphabetical list or category list of all man pages available: > catman(1) - preformat man pages > man(1) - format and display the on-line manual pages > man(7) - quick reference guide for the -man macro package > manpath(1)- determine user's search path for man pages > pod2man(1)- translate embedded Perl pod directives into man pages > ... on and on, a long list ... > > > So I guess my question is as follows: > 1. Is there a way to request a man summary like this? Try 'apropos ""'. --gt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message