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.
