Re: apropos does nothing

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:05, Vector wrote:
> 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.

Okay fine.  But on slackware I can do 'man -K pthread' and get every
manual page on the whole system that mentions pthread.  What is the
equivalent funtion on Debian?

And please dont say:
for page in `find /usr/share/man`; do zgrep whatever $page; done;

'cuz that just ain't what I'm looking for.

-jwb