Re: Bug#368383: dumb "manual page for..." NAME section on many man pages
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- Subject: Re: Bug#368383: dumb "manual page for..." NAME section on many man pages
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:30:09 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87ejwna6ke.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- In-reply-to: <20060601031757.0f940c1f.agcosta@gis.net> (A. Costa's message of "Thu, 1 Jun 2006 03:17:57 -0400")
- References: <20060601031757.0f940c1f.agcosta@gis.net>
A Costa <agcosta@gis.net> writes:
> 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
[...]
> 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.
I've committed a lintian check to Subversion for this. It will be in the
next upload, including a pointer to the -n option of help2man.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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