Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:19:33 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> Cc: justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk, Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition Message-ID: <36976575.65AC31EB@uk.radan.com> References: <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com>
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Graeme Tait wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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!)
>
That's useful info to know. Perhaps the manpage for apropos needs
expanding?
> --
> Graeme Tait - Echidna
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was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
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