It's just like apropos - it takes the parameter you give it as a keyword.
Try something like 'man -k mail' to find many other commands related to
mail! For (a particularly bad) example, observe:
$ man -k dns
curs_addstr: addstr, addnstr, waddstr, waddnstr, mvaddstr,mvaddnstr,
mvwaddstr, mvwaddnstr (3X) - add a string ofcharacters to a cur
dnsquery (1C) - query domain name servers using resolver
ldshread, ldnshread (3X) - read an indexed/named section headerof a common
object file
ldsseek, ldnsseek (3X) - seek to an indexed/named section of acommon object
file
$
I want to know about dns and all it's related stuff, yet I get entries like
curs_addstr, because "dns" appears in "addnstr" and "waddnstr"...
Usually, though, if you perform a keyword search on your topic of interest,
you almost always find something new and nifty! I spend hours surfing man
pages! :-)
Steve Flynn
NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert MacLean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!
what does the -k on man do?
normally i use just man <topic>
Robert MacLean
----- Original Message -----
From: "FLYNN, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!
> It might be worth mentioning to the gentleman struggling to unzip
his tar,
> that the one method which is guaranteed to work on all versions
(well, since
> 6.5 where I first used it) is to use bunzip2 to firstly unzip the
.bz2 file
> to a flat tar file and then un-tar it.
>
> Don't try to run before you can walk - break the problem down into
little
> stages and hunt for a command to get you to the next stage. That
way
you
> become familiar with more commands, faster, and then you start
finding the
> shortcuts like having tar perform the filtering for you.
>
> Remember, 'man -k <topic>' or 'apropos <topic>' are you greatest
friends...
>
>
> Steve Flynn
> NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
> * 01603 687386
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael D. Viron [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!
>
> >while the 'j' switch will:
> > -j, --bzip
> > filter the archive through bzip2
> > which is what I reckon you want to do Benjamin
>
> This of course, will only work in Mandrake 8.0 or later, not in
the
> 7.x
> series.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Viron
> Registered Linux User #81978
> Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
> Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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