top & man pages

[George Toft]

man search engine: apropos

example:
$ apropos zip
bunzip2 [bzip2]      (1)  - a block-sorting file compressor, v1.0.2
bzcat [bzip2]        (1)  - decompresses files to stdout
bzcmp [bzdiff]       (1)  - compare bzip2 compressed files
bzdiff               (1)  - compare bzip2 compressed files
bzegrep [bzgrep]     (1)  - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a 
regular expression
bzfgrep [bzgrep]     (1)  - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a 
regular expression
bzgrep               (1)  - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a 
regular expression
bzip2                (1)  - a block-sorting file compressor, v1.0.2
bzip2recover [bzip2] (1)  - recovers data from damaged bzip2 files
bzless [bzmore]      (1)  - file perusal filter for crt viewing of bzip2 
compressed text
bzmore               (1)  - file perusal filter for crt viewing of bzip2 
compressed text
funzip               (1)  - filter for extracting from a ZIP archive in 
a pipe
gunzip [gzip]        (1)  - compress or expand files
gzip                 (1)  - compress or expand files
mzip                 (1)  - change protection mode and eject disk on 
Zip/Jaz drive
unzip                (1)  - list, test and extract compressed files in a 
ZIP archive
unzipsfx             (1)  - self-extracting stub for prepending to ZIP 
archives
zcat [gzip]          (1)  - compress or expand files
zforce               (1)  - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files
zip                  (1)  - package and compress (archive) files
zipcloak [zip]       (1)  - package and compress (archive) files
zipgrep              (1)  - search files in a ZIP archive for lines 
matching a pattern
zipinfo              (1)  - list detailed information about a ZIP archive
zipnote [zip]        (1)  - package and compress (archive) files
zipsplit [zip]       (1)  - package and compress (archive) files
$

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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betty wrote:
> wow the 'top' command is pretty cool.
> there is so much stuff in the man pages, is there a table of contents??? 
> then i can print out the toc and look for stuff of interest.