Re: apropos does nothing
It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find
instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file
location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.
vec
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:29 PM
Subject: apropos does nothing
> Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
> thing:
>
> jwb@noodles:/var$ apropos ls
> ls: nothing appropriate.
> jwb@noodles:/var$ apropos apropos
> apropos: nothing appropriate.
> jwb@noodles:/var$ ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
> jwb@noodles:/var$ mkwhatis
> bash: mkwhatis: command not found
>
> How do I get it to work?
>
> -jwb
>
>
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