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RE: documentation for windows


Steve,

I love "apropos." If typing that gives you trouble, go with "man -k".

However, the important thing to note is that it's only searching the 
synopsis text at the top of the man page, not the full text of the page. 
Lastly, it searches for a character string, not a full word.

Randall Schulz


At 11:36 2001-07-02, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>The apropos command may be even more useful to a newby.  I don't remember
>how long I struggled the first time I wanted to rename a file.  The apropos
>command searches the man and info pages for a key word, and reports the
>relevant entries.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Joshua Franklin [SMTP:joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com]
>Sent:   Monday, July 02, 2001 6:22 AM
>To:     will@siteaboutnothing.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject:        re: documentation for windows
>
>If you're really that new to *NIX, you might not
>know about the dominant form of documentation--
>man pages. Just type 'man [name of command]' for
>basic usage info. And, IARC, the BASH manual is
>in /usr/doc or somewhere. Try 'find /usr -name "bash*.html"'


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