Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:46:26 -0500 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk, Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> Cc: Graeme@echidna.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition Message-ID: <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com> References: <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk>
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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!)
--
Graeme Tait - Echidna
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