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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:38:15 +0200
From:      German Tischler <tanis@gaspode.franken.de>
To:        Bruce Petro <bpetro@usa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Is there a summary of man stuff?
Message-ID:  <20000920093815.A1055@gaspode.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <381765155.969405532704.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com>; from bpetro@usa.com on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:20:02AM %2B0200
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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



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