Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 05:54:56 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <19990108195457.7192.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <369628AB.D05CC84C@uk.radan.com> of Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:47:55 GMT References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <36961215.CC2@echidna.com> <369615BA.3AC65BD0@uk.radan.com> <3696196D.35A6@echidna.com> <3696202D.DF3D2455@uk.radan.com> <369628AB.D05CC84C@uk.radan.com>
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> Thinking about it you could make your own list with a script something > like: > > #\!/bin/sh > > cd /usr/share/man > > for name in `ls man*/* | sed 's/\..*//'` > do > whatis $name > done > > re-directing the output to a file. Why do all this, when a simple "apropos 1 8" will give you a paged list of all commands in sections 1 and 8? -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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