From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 12:46:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22708 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hera.webcom.com (hera.webcom.com [209.1.28.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22702 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:46:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from eresh.webcom.com (eresh.webcom.com [209.1.28.49]) by hera.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA11715; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:45:56 -0800 Received: from [204.143.69.51] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 25475840; Fri Jan 08 12:43 PST 1999 Message-Id: <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:46:26 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk, Greg Black Cc: Graeme@echidna.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition References: <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Justin Murdock wrote: > > > Graeme Tait wrote: > > > > > > > > BTW, apropos returns capsule command descriptions like what I am > > > > suggesting - is there a complete list of this form in a single file > > > > somewhere? > apropos "" > mylist Greg Black wrote: > Why do all this {snipped], when a simple "apropos 1 8" will give you a > paged list of all commands in sections 1 and 8? Thanks - those do the trick! Now to categorize the commands ... (The above usages of "apropos" are not what you would call obvious from the man page!) -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message