On Friday 02 Jan 2004 2:24 pm, 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 > > One time of day mandrake included Xemacs which had a simple > facility to > do just this, now days it doesn't, so there must be some other easy > way > on the the job perhaps on the CL at least.
man uses less, which uses vi syntax for searches. Type: /AC3 and then just a slash by itself to look for the next. -- Richard Urwin
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