Re: basic operations

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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 09:03, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:28 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> >
> > 
> > One good way to figure out what commands are available is to use the
> > command apropos.
> > 
> > apropos keyword
> > 
> > Where keyword is something you are trying to do like:
> > 
> > apropos filesystem
> > 
> > apropos searches the whatis database for matches and lists short
> > descriptions of system commands that match.
> > 
> Uhhhh,   Don't you mean that apropos searches the man pages to find
> things that match?

If you look at the man page for apropos you will see that it searches
the the whatis database for matches.  The result is a list of man pages
where the keyword is found.  Much faster to search a database than too
search each man page individually.  You do need to make sure the whatis
database has been created for this to work. 


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