Re: apropos does nothing
man -k pthread
heheh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: apropos does nothing
> 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
>
>
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