well , i have been scanning for anything related with isp on my computer , i have downloaded more than i can bare at linuxdoc.org and i am lost with all the information .

I tried "locate" and find but didn't help, i understand that the locate command only looks for files or words within filenames and that "find searches the directory tree rooted at each given file name by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules of precedence..." Is there any command to look for words ? i am realising that many of the topics in howto's are frequently connected in some way with other topics and it would be nice to look to all data available regarding a specific subject. thanks in advance for your help

Well, say all your docs are in /home/jamaso/docs, you could do
find /home/jamaso/docs -type f | xargs grep '\{\}' -e "search term". If you don't like typing, I use a simple shellscript called "gfind" (www.rootshell.be/~unspawn/gfind, the md5sum: www.rootshell.be/~unspawn/gfind.md5, no I didn't write it), make it executable if you trust its contents not to harm your data, and execute as "gfind </dir/to/search> <search terms in quotes>".

Sometimes the best place to look for an answer is within itself.

man locate
Scroll to the bottom, it lists revelant commands.

Thanks !

If you're looking for a cammand, and not sure what the command name is, you can use:

apropos <keyword>

As an example, you want to copy a file and you know the command copy doesn't work, you can type in:

apropos copy

and it will return any command or function that has anything to do with copy with a brief description. -mk