Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:14:03 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc> Cc: Bruce Petro <bpetro@usa.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Message-ID: <20000920011403.E257@parish> In-Reply-To: <39C7FB69.B2190624@smartsoft.cc>; from jan@smartsoft.cc on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:48:57PM -0400 References: <381765155.969405532704.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com> <39C7FB69.B2190624@smartsoft.cc>
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:48:57PM -0400, Jan Knepper wrote:
> Try
> apropos 'whatever'
> or
> whatis 'whatever'
>
> Guess that will help you.
>
% apropos <section>
where section is the section number (1-9) will be closer to what you
want.
Under FreeBSD, the following section numbers and their descrip-
tions are described below:
1 FreeBSD General Commands Manual
2 FreeBSD System Calls Manaul
3 FreeBSD Library Calls Manual
4 FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual
5 FreeBSD File Formats Manual
6 FreeBSD Games Manual
7 FreeBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual
8 FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
9 FreeBSD Kernel Developers Guide
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> Bruce Petro wrote:
>
> > I've looked at man man and I don't see any option to display a list of all available man pages list single line summaries.
> >
> > IE: Something like this that I snitched from whatis man but a nice alphabetical list or category list of all man pages available:
> > catman(1) - preformat man pages
> > man(1) - format and display the on-line manual pages
> > man(7) - quick reference guide for the -man macro package
> > manpath(1)- determine user's search path for man pages
> > pod2man(1)- translate embedded Perl pod directives into man pages
> > ... on and on, a long list ...
> >
> > So I guess my question is as follows:
> > 1. Is there a way to request a man summary like this?
> > 2. Is there a HTML site somewhere that perhaps gives a summary of the standard man pages either alphabetically or even better a summary of man pages ordered by categories!
> >
> > THANKS!
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