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 My IT Department www.myITaz.com 480-544-1067 Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry. 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. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss