Re: Q: restrict apropos queries?

To: Sándor Bárány <bs@tud.at>
Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Q: restrict apropos queries?
From: Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 03:41:55 +0300
Message-id: <[🔎] E15imTz-0001nQ-00@rakefet>
In-reply-to: Message from Sándor Bárány <bs@tud.at> of "Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:41:11 +0200." <[🔎] 3BA481C7.5DEF8704@tud.at>
References: <[🔎] 3BA481C7.5DEF8704@tud.at>

> Hi,
> 
> I want sometimes to avoid getting answers to my apropos query  from the
> man section 3 and 3x (ie I want only commands and no APIs). How can I do
> that without statically removing those man sections?
> 


One way would be to filter out all the 3 and 3x answers:

apropos open | grep -v '(3)' | grep -v '(3x)'


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