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in my experience it can be all over the place.
if i don't find it with 'man ...', i usually look at the files the package installed, on debian systems with 'dpkg -L <package>', and see what is there... a readme, or html documentation etc.
in my experience it can be all over the place.
if i don't find it with 'man ...', i usually look at the files the package installed, on debian systems with 'dpkg -L <package>', and see what is there... a readme, or html documentation etc.
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Documentation, like gold, is where you find it. Apropos is a good program for searching documentation. For instance:
Code:
$ apropos find
yields this on my laptop:
Code:
$
__dev_get_by_flags (9) - find any device with given flags
__dev_get_by_index (9) - find a device by its ifindex
__dev_get_by_name (9) - find a device by its name
__ffs (9) - find first set bit in word
__scsi_device_lookup (9) - find a device given the host (UNLOCKED)
__scsi_device_lookup_by_target (9) - find a device given the target (UNLOCKED)
ata_dev_phys_link (9) - find physical link for a device
ata_scsi_find_dev (9) - lookup ata_device from scsi_cmnd
ata_timing_cycle2mode (9) - find xfer mode for the specified cycle duration
ata_xfer_mask2mode (9) - Find matching XFER_* for the given xfer_mask
ata_xfer_mode2mask (9) - Find matching xfer_mask for XFER_*
ata_xfer_mode2shift (9) - Find matching xfer_shift for XFER_*
bitmap_find_free_region (9) - find a contiguous aligned mem region
bitmap_find_next_zero_area_off (9) - find a contiguous aligned zero area
bitmap_ord_to_pos (9) - find position of n-th set bit in bitmap
bitmap_pos_to_ord (9) - find ordinal of set bit at given position in bitmap
blk_queue_find_tag (9) - find a request by its tag and queue
blk_queue_start_tag (9) - find a free tag and assign it
bmap (9) - find a block number in a file
bus_find_device (9) - device iterator for locating a particular device.
bus_find_device_by_name (9) - device iterator for locating a particular device of a specific name
cfg80211_find_ie (9) - find information element in data
class_find_device (9) - device iterator for locating a particular device
cpupri_find (9) - find the best (lowest-pri) CPU in the system
d_find_any_alias (9) - find any alias for a given inode
d_obtain_alias (9) - find or allocate a DISCONNECTED dentry for a given inode
d_obtain_root (9) - find or allocate a dentry for a given inode
dev_get_by_index (9) - find a device by its ifindex
dev_get_by_index_rcu (9) - find a device by its ifindex
dev_get_by_name (9) - find a device by its name
dev_get_by_name_rcu (9) - find a device by its name
dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu (9) - find a device by its hardware address
device_find_child (9) - device iterator for locating a particular device.
devres_destroy (9) - Find a device resource and destroy it
devres_find (9) - Find device resource
devres_get (9) - Find devres, if non-existent, add one atomically
devres_release (9) - Find a device resource and destroy it, calling release
devres_remove (9) - Find a device resource and remove it
dmi_find_device (9) - find onboard device by type/name
dmi_first_match (9) - find dmi_system_id structure matching system DMI data
driver_find (9) - locate driver on a bus by its name.
driver_find_device (9) - device iterator for locating a particular device.
drm_connector_index (9) - find the index of a registered connector
drm_crtc_index (9) - find the index of a registered CRTC
drm_crtc_mask (9) - find the mask of a registered CRTC
drm_dp_find_vcpi_slots (9) - find slots for this PBN value
drm_mode_object_find (9) - look up a drm object with static lifetime
drm_modeset_legacy_acquire_ctx (9) - find acquire ctx for legacy ioctls
drm_plane_index (9) - find the index of a registered plane
drm_vma_offset_lookup (9) - Find node in offset space
drm_vma_offset_lookup_locked (9) - Find node in offset space
edd_get_pci_dev (9) - finds pci_dev that matches edev
fb_find_best_mode (9) - find best matching videomode
fb_find_mode (9) - finds a valid video mode
fb_find_nearest_mode (9) - find closest videomode
fb_match_mode (9) - find a videomode which exactly matches the timings in var
ffs (9) - find first set bit in word
ffz (9) - find first zero bit in word
find_busiest_group (9) - Returns the busiest group within the sched_domain if there is an
imbalance. If there isn't an imbalance, and the us...
find_get_entry (9) - find and get a page cache entry
find_get_pages_contig (9) - gang contiguous pagecache lookup
find_get_pages_tag (9) - find and return pages that match tag
find_inode_nowait (9) - find an inode in the inode cache
find_lock_entry (9) - locate, pin and lock a page cache entry
find_min_pfn_with_active_regions (9) - Find the minimum PFN registered
find_next_best_node (9) - find the next node that should appear in a given node's fallback list
fls (9) - find last set bit in word
fls64 (9) - find last set bit in a 64-bit word
ieee80211_bss_get_ie (9) - find IE with given ID
ieee80211_find_sta (9) - find a station
ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr (9) - find a station on hardware
init_rs (9) - Find a matching or allocate a new rs control structure
init_rs_non_canonical (9) - Find a matching or allocate a new rs control structure, for fields with
non-canonical representation
ipc_findkey (9) - find a key in an ipc identifier set
iscsi_find_flashnode_conn (9) - finds flashnode connection entry
iscsi_find_flashnode_sess (9) - finds flashnode session entry
lookup_resource (9) - find an existing resource by a resource start address
mac_find_mode (9) - find a video mode
memchr (9) - Find a character in an area of memory.
memchr_inv (9) - Find an unmatching character in an area of memory.
memscan (9) - Find a character in an area of memory.
mpt_findImVolumes (9) - Identify IDs of hidden disks and RAID Volumes
nand_scan_bbt (9) - [NAND Interface] scan, find, read and maybe create bad block table(s)
of_find_mipi_dsi_device_by_node (9) - find the MIPI DSI device matching a device tree node
of_mdio_find_bus (9) - Given an mii_bus node, find the mii_bus.
page_cache_next_hole (9) - find the next hole (not-present entry)
page_cache_prev_hole (9) - find the prev hole (not-present entry)
pagecache_get_page (9) - find and get a page reference
parent_len (9) - find the length of the parent portion of a pathname
parport_find_base (9) - find a parallel port by base address
parport_find_number (9) - find a parallel port by number
parport_open (9) - find a device by canonical device number
pci_bus_find_capability (9) - query for devices' capabilities
pci_find_bus (9) - locate PCI bus from a given domain and bus number
pci_find_capability (9) - query for devices' capabilities
pci_find_ext_capability (9) - Find an extended capability
pci_find_ht_capability (9) - query a device's Hypertransport capabilities
pci_find_next_bus (9) - begin or continue searching for a PCI bus
pci_find_next_ext_capability (9) - Find an extended capability
pci_find_next_ht_capability (9) - query a device's Hypertransport capabilities
pci_find_parent_resource (9) - return resource region of parent bus of given region
phy_find_first (9) - finds the first PHY device on the bus
phy_find_setting (9) - find a PHY settings array entry that matches speed & duplex
phy_find_valid (9) - find a PHY setting that matches the requested features mask
relay_file_read_start_pos (9) - find the first available byte to read
rio_find_mport (9) - find RIO mport by its ID
rpc_find_or_alloc_pipe_dir_object (9) - (unknown subject)
scsi_alloc_target (9) - allocate a new or find an existing target
scsi_device_lookup (9) - find a device given the host
scsi_device_lookup_by_target (9) - find a device given the target
scsi_kmap_atomic_sg (9) - find and atomically map an sg-elemnt
scsi_report_opcode (9) - Find out if a given command opcode is supported
scsi_sense_desc_find (9) - search for a given descriptor type in descriptor sense data format.
sget (9) - find or create a superblock
sh64_next_free_dtlb_entry (9) - Find the next available DTLB entry
skb_find_text (9) - Find a text pattern in skb data
snd_ctl_find_id (9) - find the control instance with the given id
snd_ctl_find_numid (9) - find the control instance with the given number-id
strchr (9) - Find the first occurrence of a character in a string
strchrnul (9) - Find and return a character in a string, or end of string
strlen (9) - Find the length of a string
strnchr (9) - Find a character in a length limited string
strnlen (9) - Find the length of a length-limited string
strnstr (9) - Find the first substring in a length-limited string
strpbrk (9) - Find the first occurrence of a set of characters
strrchr (9) - Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
strstr (9) - Find the first substring in a NUL terminated string
subsys_find_device_by_id (9) - find a device with a specific enumeration number
svc_find_xprt (9) - find an RPC transport instance
usb_find_alt_setting (9) - Given a configuration, find the alternate setting for the given
interface.
usb_find_interface (9) - find usb_interface pointer for driver and device
usb_hub_find_child (9) - Get the pointer of child device attached to the port which is specified by port1.
usb_match_id (9) - find first usb_device_id matching device or interface
xprt_lookup_rqst (9) - find an RPC request corresponding to an XID
adjtimexconfig (8) - find kernel clock variables and save for reboots
asn1_find_node (3) - API function
asn1_find_structure_from_oid (3) - API function
AuLookupEventHandler (3nas) - find the next handler for an event.
BIO_find_type (3ssl) - BIO chain traversal
bogotune (1) - find optimum parameter settings for bogofilter
bogotune-bdb (1) - find optimum parameter settings for bogofilter
btrfs-find-root (8) - filter to find btrfs root
build-rdeps (1) - find packages that depend on a specific package to build (reverse build
depends)
cluster (1) - find clusters in a graph and augment the graph with this information.
DBI::Mock (3pm) - mock a DBI if we can't find the real one
deborphan (1) - Orphaned package finder
Devel::InnerPackage (3pm) - find all the inner packages of a package
Email::Find (3pm) - Find RFC 822 email addresses in plain text
Email::Find::addrspec (3pm) - exports $Addr_spec_re to Email::Find
exinext (8) - Finding individual retry times
exiwhat (8) - Finding out what Exim processes are doing
FcConfigFilename (3) - Find a config file
ffind (1) - Finds the name of the file or directory using a given inode
ffs (3) - find first bit set in a word
ffsl (3) - find first bit set in a word
ffsll (3) - find first bit set in a word
File::Find (3perl) - Traverse a directory tree.
File::HomeDir (3pm) - Find your home and other directories on any platform
File::HomeDir::Darwin (3pm) - Find your home and other directories on Darwin (OS X)
File::HomeDir::Darwin::Carbon (3pm) - Find your home and other directories on Darwin (OS X)
File::HomeDir::Darwin::Cocoa (3pm) - Find your home and other directories on Darwin (OS X)
File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop (3pm) - Find your home and other directories on FreeDesktop.org Unix
File::HomeDir::MacOS9 (3pm) - Find your home and other directories on legacy Macs
File::HomeDir::Unix (3pm) - Find your home and other directories on legacy Unix
File::HomeDir::Windows (3pm) - Find your home and other directories on Windows
File::IconTheme (3pm) - find icon directories
File::UserDirs (3pm) - find extra media and documents directories
find (1) - search for files in a directory hierarchy
findaffix (1) - Interactive spelling checking
FindBin (3perl) - Locate directory of original perl script
findfs (8) - find a filesystem by label or UUID
findhyph (1) - (unknown subject)
findmnt (8) - find a filesystem
git-bisect (1) - Use binary search to find the commit that introduced a bug
git-cherry (1) - Find commits yet to be applied to upstream
git-merge-base (1) - Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge
git-name-rev (1) - Find symbolic names for given revs
git-pack-redundant (1) - Find redundant pack files
glob (3) - find pathnames matching a pattern, free memory from glob()
globfree (3) - find pathnames matching a pattern, free memory from glob()
gst-typefind-1.0 (1) - print Media type of file
gtkorphan (8) - A graphical tool to find and remove orphaned libraries
gvmap (1) - find clusters and create a geographical map highlighting clusters.
hfind (1) - Lookup a hash value in a hash database
ifind (1) - Find the meta-data structure that has allocated a given disk unit or file
name.
IPC::Cmd (3perl) - finding and running system commands made easy
jdb (1) - Finds and fixes bugs in Java platform programs.
john (8) - a tool to find weak passwords of your users
kfind (1) - file find utility for KDE
lfind (3) - linear search of an array
locate (1) - find files by name
Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator (3pm) - find and process messages one at a time
mdatabase_find (3m17n) - Look for a data in the database.
memdiskfind (1) - Simple utility to find a resident memdisk instance.
mflt_find (3m17n) - Find an FLT suitable for the specified character and font.
mfont_find (3m17n) - Find a font.
mlocate (1) - find files by name
Module::Find (3pm) - Find and use installed modules in a (sub)category
Mojolicious::Routes (3pm) - Always find your destination with routes
Mojolicious::Routes::Match (3pm) - Find routes
mono-find-provides (1) - No manpage for this program.
mono-find-requires (1) - No manpage for this program.
mplist_find_by_key (3m17n) - Find a property of a specific key in a property list.
mplist_find_by_value (3m17n) - Find a property of a specific value in a property list.
mtext_line_break (3m17n) - Find a linebreak postion of an M-text.
mtext_prop_range (3m17n) - Find the range where the value of a text property is the same.
OCSP_resp_find (3ssl) - OCSP response utility functions
OCSP_resp_find_status (3ssl) - OCSP response utility functions
OPENSSL_sk_find (3ssl) - stack container
OPENSSL_sk_find_ex (3ssl) - stack container
Path::Iterator::Rule (3pm) - Iterative, recursive file finder
perlmodlib (1) - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
pidof (8) - find the process ID of a running program.
Pod::Find (3perl) - find POD documents in directory trees
Pod::Simple::Search (3perl) - find POD documents in directory trees
ppsfind (8) - LinuxPPS support tools and headers
tree (3) - implementations of splay and red-black trees
sane-find-scanner (1) - find SCSI and USB scanners and their device files
sgmldiff (1) - Find differences in the markup of two SGML files
sigfind (1) - Find a binary signature in a file
sk_TYPE_find (3ssl) - stack container
sk_TYPE_find_ex (3ssl) - stack container
stringlist (3) - stringlist manipulation functions
SPI_cursor_find (3) - find an existing cursor by name
systemd-delta (1) - Find overridden configuration files
texdoc (1) - find & view documentation in TeX Live
tfind (3) - manage a binary tree
Tk::X11Font (3pm) - a class for finding X Fonts
ttyslot (3) - find the slot of the current user's terminal in some file
tv_find_grabbers (1p) - Find all XMLTV grabbers that are installed on the system.
unhide (8) - forensic tool to find hidden processes
unhide-linux (8) - forensic tool to find hidden processes
unhide-posix (8) - forensic tool to find hidden processes
unhide-tcp (8) - forensic tool to find hidden TCP/UDP ports
unhide_rb (8) - forensic tool to find hidden processes
xdg-user-dir (1) - Find an XDG user dir
XFindContext (3) - associative look-up routines
XkbFindOverlayForKey (3) - Find the alternate name by using the primary name for a key that is part
of an overlay
XkbGetControls (3) - Finds the current state of Xkb server controls
XkbKeycodeToKeysym (3) - Finds the keysym bound to a particular key at a specified group and shift
level
XkbKeysymToModifiers (3) - Finds the set of modifiers bound to a particular keysym on the core
keyboard
XkbLookupKeyBinding (3) - Find the string bound to a key by XRebindKeySym
XkbLookupKeySym (3) - Find the symbol associated with a key for a particular state
XkbTranslateKeySym (3) - Find the string and symbol associated with a keysym for a given keyboard
state
XtFindFile (3) - search for a file using substitutions in the path list
Those are man files, so you view them with the "man" command.
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