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From: Wolfram Schneider <w@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: "Julian Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Julian Stacey writes:
 > 
 > > whatis `ls -1 /usr/share/man/man1/??.1* | sed -e 's/.*[/]//' -e 's/\.1.*//'`
 > It's a syntax err !
 > sed: 1: "s/.*[/]//": RE error: brackets ([ ]) not balanced
 > 
 > didnt work in bash csh sh tcsh, or a file invocation for me,
 > not that it matters ;-)
 > Julian S

4.4BSD sed is broken. You must quote '/'in brackets, 
eg. sed -e 's/.*[\/]//'

Better solution: $  grep '^..(1)' /usr/share/man/whatis

Wolfram