Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:47:55 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <369628AB.D05CC84C@uk.radan.com> References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <36961215.CC2@echidna.com> <369615BA.3AC65BD0@uk.radan.com> <3696196D.35A6@echidna.com> <3696202D.DF3D2455@uk.radan.com>
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Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> Graeme Tait wrote:
> > Maybe I'm dense, but where is the list?
> >
>
> Doh, you're not dense, it's me. I've just checked and the FreeBSD
> ``man intro'' doesn't do it. I remember this man page from when I
> started using Unix (Sun's) and just quoted it.
>
> FWIW, the Sun version does this...
>
> INTRO(1) USER COMMANDS INTRO(1)
>
> LIST OF COMMANDS
> Name Appears on Page Description
>
> comb sccs-comb(1) combine SCCS deltas
Thinking about it you could make your own list with a script something
like:
#\!/bin/sh
cd /usr/share/man
for name in `ls man*/* | sed 's/\..*//'`
do
whatis $name
done
re-directing the output to a file.
--
Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It
was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd.
Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions
mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com
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