On 3/17/24 15:10, Ivo van Poorten wrote: >> In THEORY each man page has a "name" section with a one line >> description, and there should be a way to emit them all, but if >> there's a standard way to do it without writing a shell script I >> dunno what it is. I generally just do > > It looks like apropos is just man -k. ... > Lots of not so useful output though: > > $ apropos ls | wc -l > 548 > $ man -k ls | wc -l > 548
And "man -k ." lists them all. Good to know. $ man -k . | wc -l 8645 Yeah, lots of debris, but that's a distro issue. No obvious way to limit it by section either... $ man -k . | sort -t'(' -k2,2n | less Eh, sort of reasonable-ish? Assuming you care about allcm, bibdoiadd and blueman-report... Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net