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
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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.
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