One could do something like "man -k " to find the relitive(sp) pages for whatever one is intrested in. Jon ---- Michael Havens wrote: > info might not be installed on your system..... mine wasn't. > > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 9:22 am, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > > Try "Info". Info is the replacement that GNU created for man. > > Unfortunately it never really caught on, but most of the core system tools > > and quite a bit of other things are in the Info index. > > > > Eric "Shubes" wrote: > > > I'm tired of hunting for man pages. My problem is, "man what"? > > > > > > I usually know what package I'm looking for some documentation about (or > > > want to learn about), so I "rpm -ql package | grep man" to see what man > > > pages are available. > > > > > > Is there a better way? Of course there could be. I've googled and came up > > > with nothing that's CLI oriented (which is what I want). > > > > > > I'm thinking of writing a script: > > > mansfor [package_name] > > > that will give me a nice menu of man pages to browse for a particular > > > package. That would satisfy my immediate need. Then I'd probably add -s > > > to search for a string included in a package_spec, and optional section > > > numbers to filter, so it'd look more like > > > mansfor {section_number} ... {-s} [package_spec] > > > > > > Does anyone know of something like this that already exists? I'm just not > > > inclined to reinvent the wheel. > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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