Re: apropos does nothing
* Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org) [Jan 21. 2002 23:30]:
> 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?
If you _have_ to have `apropos` why not just alias `man -k` to `apropos`
in your shell's rc?
I missed the rest of the thread, but on my woody setup apropos is just
skippy:
(~)% apropos apropos
apropos (1) - search the manual page names and descriptions
(~)%
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