At 8:03 AM -0600 12/3/05, Jeff Vian wrote: >On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:28 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:33, Phet Whore Meyer wrote: >> > To whom it may concern, >> > >> > Ive recently left the dark and moved into linux, i just have this one >>query >> > for now: >> > In windows all programs were installed into a folder called 'Program >>Files', >> > in linux, where is that equivelant folder? What is it called? >> > >> > I know that this question is fairly trivial, is there anywhere else i >>can go >> > to find out basic information such as this? >> > >> > I greatly appreciate the help. >> >> 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? ... No, he meant what he said. Apropos does not search man pages; it greps the whatis database, which is constructed by makewhatis from the man page headers, not from the man page bodies. Apropos is a shell script, which you can read if you want to. Plug: I have an improved apropos that handles multiple words in a useful way: <http://georgeanelson.com/apropos2.htm> ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
