Re: [newbie] How to search text

[John Richard Smith]

robin wrote:

John Richard Smith wrote:

How do you search a manual for specific references without having to
eyeball the entire document.
I'd like to scan man mencoder for references to AC3

surely there must be some simple way of doing this

man mencoder | grep AC3

See man grep for options (e.g. how many lines of context to print).

Sir Robin

Thanks robin and Tony ,

I just knew it'd be simple.

John

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