On Sunday 22 August 2004 00:05, Bill Gradwohl wrote: >>Where in the manpage info, is this defined so that I might not have >> to ask what is in retrospect a stupid question that really does >> have an answer if only *I* knew *where* to look? > >You may want to consider putting the following line in your .bashrc > file: alias man='man -a' >If you're the root user, add the line to /root/.bashrc and the next > time .bashrc is sourced, every time you say: > man SomethingOrOther >you'll get the references from each chapter, one right after the > other. > >Just try running man -a SomethingOrOther and see what you > get. And this may be the best suggestion so far Bill, thank you very much. It is done, except I put in alias man="man -a " in order to assure a space seperator was present. It can't hurt anyway. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
