Re: apropos does nothing
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:29:11 -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>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
apropos uses an index that mandb creates or updates. Check the man
pages for the info. Maybe your index is out of whack. Of course this
could all be wrong. ;^}
gt
Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means--Nash
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