On 2 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sullivan writes: > > 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). > > Which would be fine if people would write proper descriptions.
But they don't. And you can't describe man which has 100 pages or more in one line. I checked rpm from TurboLinux (man-1.5g-5.i386.rpm). >From it's man page: -K Search for the specified string in *all* man pages. Warning: this is probably very slow! It helps to specify a section. (Just to give a rough idea, on my machine this takes about a minute per 500 man pages.) I want to know why debian don't use that version of man. -- Peter irc: #Debian.pl