TOC for man

Sir Light sirlight at cox.net
Wed Feb 14 09:37:05 MST 2007


One could do something like "man -k <keyword>" to find the relitive(sp) pages for whatever one is intrested in.

Jon

---- Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> 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.
> >
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