Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04: > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >> Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? >> >> Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could >> just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants: > > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=apropos
Yes, I know :-) I was trying to suggest apropos might be what the OP was trying to find while also providing a literal solution to his problem. -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com
