From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 8:54:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx460-mta.mail.com (rmx460-mta.mail.com [165.251.48.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C76BC37B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web313-mc.mail.com (web313-mc.mail.com [165.251.48.171]) by rmx460-mta.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA20814 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:54:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <383349598.969551684996.JavaMail.root@web313-mc.mail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:54:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Petro To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: mail.com X-WM-FaxTo: X-Originating-IP: 208.24.179.202 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to everyone who replied - I've learned: 1. Sending mail from mail.com does not wrap. I need to hit enter myself and wrap it. 2. Mike wins the most helpful answer! See text below. 3. Several folks seem to be thinking an initial man page may be missing for lame-brains like me, hopefully someone can add one. 4. Finally, there is xman if you have xwindows that is more helpful. 5. One possible addition for someone - produce some summary and subject-related html pages for this (or share where there are some). Thanks Again! Bruce. --------- Answer from Mike -------------- Actually, whatis (aka "man -k") will try and do that if you ask for all pages that match an empty keyword. Sorting it is then easy: man -k '' | sort -f Getting things sorted by section is a bit harder, but this does it: man -k '' | sed -e h -e 's/).*//' -e 's/.*(//' -e G -e 's/\n/:/' | sort -n Ok, the sed script ought to go in a file, but then I couldn't do it on one (long) line :-). ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message