Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:38:15 +0200 From: German Tischler <tanis@gaspode.franken.de> To: Bruce Petro <bpetro@usa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Message-ID: <20000920093815.A1055@gaspode.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <381765155.969405532704.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com>; from bpetro@usa.com on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:20:02AM %2B0200 References: <381765155.969405532704.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:20:02AM +0200, Bruce Petro wrote: > I've looked at man man and I don't see any option to display a list of all available man pages list single line summaries. > > IE: Something like this that I snitched from whatis man but a nice alphabetical list or category list of all man pages available: > catman(1) - preformat man pages > man(1) - format and display the on-line manual pages > man(7) - quick reference guide for the -man macro package > manpath(1)- determine user's search path for man pages > pod2man(1)- translate embedded Perl pod directives into man pages > ... on and on, a long list ... > > > So I guess my question is as follows: > 1. Is there a way to request a man summary like this? Try 'apropos ""'. --gt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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