Re: Command line reference

[Alan Ezust <alan.ezust@gmail.com>]

> You are correct. However, to search the man pages means that you already
> know the command to start with. What I'd like to do is to be able to say
> something like this "Hey, why is my drive/sound card/video card doing
> this?", then find a site that lists the commands that are drive-/sound
> card-/video card-related so that I can decide what might be run from the CLI
> to diagnose/fix/optimize/etc.

man pages have a keyword search mode

man -k video

shows you all man pages related to video. For debian, I also find

apt-cache search video

also helps me get an idea of what installable packages are out there,
which are related to video. You can find out about all sorts of nifty
tools this way.