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mr tim esquire

07-28-2008 01:35 PM

Search the 'man' pages

Hello all, google has been bringing me this way for a while now and i've solved many problems from reading the discussions made here... so thanks! Finally ive joined and have a question...
Is there anyway to search the collection of manuals for my system's commands? i.e the ones you get when you type e.g $ man ls
I think if i could search all the manuals I might be able to find commands when I need them without heading to google.

Thanks!
Tim

pwc101

07-28-2008 01:43 PM

Perhaps apropos will help?

Code:

apropos compress

apropos remove

apropos delete

edit: Might also be worth looking at whatis, and my favourite, wtf:

Code:

whatis rm

whatis man

wtf is rm

wtf is lol

mr tim esquire

07-28-2008 05:35 PM

Thanks, these are great!
Im not sure if your joking about wtf, i certainly dont have it :p haha

jomen

07-28-2008 05:54 PM

http://linux.die.net/man/6/wtf
installed it right away :D

chrism01

07-28-2008 07:33 PM

Just FYI, apropos is approx same as man -k

john test

07-28-2008 08:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr tim esquire (Post 3228929)

Did you try man -k * | more
or man -k * > manpages.txt
or apropos * | more
or apropos * > manpages.txt

onebuck

07-28-2008 10:37 PM

Hi,

'LINUX MAN PAGES ONLINE' is another good reference.

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