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Date:      Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:46:26 -0500
From:      Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>
To:        justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk, Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
Cc:        Graeme@echidna.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition
Message-ID:  <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com>
References:  <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk>

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Justin Murdock wrote:

> > > Graeme Tait wrote:
> > > >
> > > > BTW, apropos returns capsule command descriptions like what I am
> > > > suggesting - is there a complete list of this form in a single file
> > > > somewhere?

> apropos "" > mylist


Greg Black wrote:

<snip>

> Why do all this {snipped], when a simple "apropos 1 8" will give you a
> paged list of all commands in sections 1 and 8?


Thanks - those do the trick!

Now to categorize the commands ...


(The above usages of "apropos" are not what you would call obvious from the 
man page!)


-- 
Graeme Tait - Echidna


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