Re: where is what?
There is a program called grep to search text files. There is also an
rgrep that will search directories recursively.
You can do searches on the Packages file that is at the base directory of
each distribution. In this case searching for what may not have found
something, but searching for text, string, search, etc. would do it.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Jim Foltz wrote:
> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:19:31 -0400
> From: Jim Foltz <jfoltz@raex.com>
> To: Keith Harbaugh <harbaugh@math.georgetown.edu>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: where is what?
>
> You're not thinking of whatis, are you?
>
> On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:23:57AM +0000, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> > `what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying
> > lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files
> > without having to use a pager or editor.
> >
> > I used the search features of the debian web site's Package page, searching
> > on `what', but to no avail (the first search yielded the empty set,
> > the second search more than would fit on a page, but all that was not
> > the "right" what) (eh, what?).
> >
> > So, two questions:
> > 1) where (i.e., in what package) is the program `what' to be found?
> > 2) how could I effectively use the web pages search, or some other search
> > capability, to have answered that question without bothering the
> > debian mailing lists?
> >
> >
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