how to search man pages
 

Hi,I wanted to know how to search man-pages. For example, i wanted to check BIND FUNCTION FOR SOCKET. When i type man bind, a page about bash related information is displayed. I have realised i should be searching for bind(2). but man bind(2) gives gives syntax error. i am using Fedora 12.

Hello,

You could use the info command to show man pages (info pages) in a different way. The big advantage is that you can scroll through them and in your case search within the page with vi command. So:
and then pressing
will open the search function. Type your search criterium and hit enter and you'll go to the first instance info encounters.

Kind regards,

Eric

I preferabbly use this link http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/bind/

Provides you with sufficient search criteria in HTML format.
Quick Reference if you are not much confortable with the black screen for long reading.

Hope it adds to your Bookmark
:)

For a quick search apropos some_keyword

Did you think of "man man" ?

The actual command to see that man page would be:
HTH,

Evo2.

thank you all, especially Evo2. Man 2 bind was what i was looking for.

man2html allows manpages to be viewed in your internet browser at http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html (at least, this is where it occurs on Debian). This could be useful in the future for searching for manpages (or for searching within manpages).