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| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353587 is a reply to message #353568] |
Thu, 28 September 2017 09:49  |
Charles Richmond
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On 9/28/2017 1:54 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:41:57 -0500
> Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
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>> On 9/27/2017 5:52 PM, John Levine wrote:
>>> In article <270920171808521025%timstreater@greenbee.net>,
>>> Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>>>> I was just using Terminal on my Mac. Typing in "man terminal" just gave
>>>> "no man entry for terminal". Hopeless.
>>>
>>> If only there were a command that would tell you which man pages have
>>> contents apropos to a keyword.
>>>
>> We saw what you did there.
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> But man -k is less typing.
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If I do *not* have "apropos" on my system, I do an
"alias apropos man -k". My fingers know "apropos".
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| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353588 is a reply to message #353571] |
Thu, 28 September 2017 09:31 |
Ahem A Rivet's Shot
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On 28 Sep 2017 07:45:25 GMT
Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:54:29 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
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>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:41:57 -0500 Dave Garland
>> <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/27/2017 5:52 PM, John Levine wrote:
>>>> In article <270920171808521025%timstreater@greenbee.net>,
>>>> Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>>>> > I was just using Terminal on my Mac. Typing in "man terminal" just
>>>> > gave "no man entry for terminal". Hopeless.
>>>>
>>>> If only there were a command that would tell you which man pages have
>>>> contents apropos to a keyword.
>>>>
>>> We saw what you did there.
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>> But man -k is less typing.
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> You beat me to it!
The odd thing is that despite knowing this I always type apropos.
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