On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:54:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > I wonder why debian have man without -K option (searching > > through body of manpage, not only title), unlike RH or Suse > > > This functionality is given by the "apropos(1)" command. "man man" still > describes "man -k" though. I guess this counts as a bug...
I thought the original poster was talking about a _full body_ search of the man pages. Do RH and SuSE really do that? Certainly, apropos doesn't -- it searches the description (at least on my system). man -k works fine here, though, on potato. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4