From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 12:00:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16799 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:00:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA16790 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:00:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 7193 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Jan 1999 19:54:57 -0000 Message-ID: <19990108195457.7192.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 05:54:56 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <36961215.CC2@echidna.com> <369615BA.3AC65BD0@uk.radan.com> <3696196D.35A6@echidna.com> <3696202D.DF3D2455@uk.radan.com> <369628AB.D05CC84C@uk.radan.com> In-reply-to: <369628AB.D05CC84C@uk.radan.com> of Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:47:55 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Thinking about it you could make your own list with a script something > like: > > #\!/bin/sh > > cd /usr/share/man > > for name in `ls man*/* | sed 's/\..*//'` > do > whatis $name > done > > re-directing the output to a file. Why do all this, when a simple "apropos 1 8" will give you a paged list of all commands in sections 1 and 8? -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message