Dick Gevers wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:22:25 +0200, robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about
Re: [newbie] How to search text:
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
When you access a man page, as in: man anything
you can then type /foo and it will highlight all instances of `foo` and take
you to the first one.
Regards, =Dick Gevers=
Thanks Richard and Dick,
That is neat.
One question though, in my example
man mencoder
then /AC3
it highlighted an instance,
but suppose there were more than one instance, how does it behave, I mean I suppose it goes to the first instance, and then waits for you to ask for the next , how do you do that ?
That's why I prefer to pipe through grep. But as someone pointed out, you can just type / and hit Return.
Sir Robin
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