TOC for man

[Jon M. Hanson]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:53:43AM -0700, 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.

Do you know about the -k switch to man. This looks for a specific
keyword in all of the man pages. Also the apropos command may also be
able to help you.