Re: Bug#368383: dumb "manual page for..." NAME section on many man pages
On Wed, 24 May 2006 02:17:28, Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> said:
> Feel free to raise new bugs on other packages.
The following pair of one-liners might be of use to somebody...
% apropos "manual page for"
cddb-slave2-properties (1) - manual page for Gnome cddb-slave2-properties 2.0.0
cdxa2mpeg (1) - manual page for cdxa2mpeg 0.7.23
ddrescue (1) - manual page for ddrescue version 1.2
eog-collection-view (1) - manual page for Gnome eog-collection-view
fribidi (1) - manual page for fribidi 0.10.5
gnome-cd (1) - manual page for Gnome gnome-cd 2.1.0
gnome-sound-recorder (1) - manual page for Gnome grecord 2.1.0
gnome-volume-control (1) - manual page for Gnome gnome-volume-control 2.1.0
gstreamer-properties (1) - manual page for Gnome gstreamer-properties 2.2.1.1
gv (1) - manual page for gv 3.6.1
orange (1) - manual page for orange 0.8.9
recode (1) - manual page for recode 3.6
speexdec (1) - manual page for speexdec version 1.1
speexenc (1) - manual page for speexenc version 1.1
vcd-info (1) - manual page for vcd-info 0.7.23
vcdimager (1) - manual page for vcdimager 0.7.23
vcdxbuild (1) - manual page for vcdxbuild 0.7.23
vcdxgen (1) - manual page for vcdxgen 0.7.23
vcdxminfo (1) - manual page for vcdxminfo 0.7.23
vcdxrip (1) - manual page for vcdxrip 0.7.23
vumeter (1) - manual page for Gnome Volume Meter 2.1.0
xchat (1) - manual page for xchat 2.0.10
...which files and packages?
% apropos "manual page for" | while read a b ; do set `whereis $a` ; eval echo \$$#; done | xargs dlocate | sort
eog: /usr/share/man/man1/eog-collection-view.1.gz
gddrescue: /usr/share/man/man1/ddrescue.1.gz
gnome-media: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-cd.1.gz
gnome-media: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-sound-recorder.1.gz
gnome-media: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-volume-control.1.gz
gnome-media: /usr/share/man/man1/gstreamer-properties.1.gz
gnome-media: /usr/share/man/man1/vumeter.1.gz
gv: /usr/share/man/man1/gv.1.gz
libfribidi0: /usr/share/man/man1/fribidi.1.gz
orange: /usr/share/man/man1/orange.1.gz
recode: /usr/share/man/man1/recode.1.gz
speex: /usr/share/man/man1/speexdec.1.gz
speex: /usr/share/man/man1/speexenc.1.gz
vcdimager: /usr/share/man/man1/cdxa2mpeg.1.gz
vcdimager: /usr/share/man/man1/vcd-info.1.gz
vcdimager: /usr/share/man/man1/vcdimager.1.gz
vcdimager: /usr/share/man/man1/vcdxbuild.1.gz
vcdimager: /usr/share/man/man1/vcdxgen.1.gz
vcdimager: /usr/share/man/man1/vcdxminfo.1.gz
vcdimager: /usr/share/man/man1/vcdxrip.1.gz
xchat: /usr/share/man/man1/xchat.1.gz
Of course my system doesn't have every package in Debian installed:
% dglob | wc -l
2433
Some developer with access to a whole Debian mirror might use a similar
search of its '.deb' archives to produce a complete list. Alas, I
don't have an equivalent one-liner for '.deb' files.
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