Re: How to find manpages (Was: Re: external drive)

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Linux-Fan wrote:
...
> Just as a side note (I saw that the mapages have been found later in the
> thread by going online): You can also search manpages by using the `apropos`
> command (part of the man-db package) like this:
>
> 	$ apropos exfat
> 	dumpexfat (8)        - dump exFAT file system
> 	exfatfsck (8)        - check an exFAT file system
> 	exfatlabel (8)       - get or set an exFAT file system label
> 	fsck.exfat (8)       - check an exFAT file system
> 	mkexfatfs (8)        - create an exFAT file system
> 	mkfs.exfat (8)       - create an exFAT file system
> 	mount.exfat (8)      - mount an exFAT file system
> 	mount.exfat-fuse (8) - mount an exFAT file system
>
> Here I have these installed (Debian 10.1/YMMV):
>
> 	$ aptitude search ~iexfat
> 	i A exfat-fuse       - read and write exFAT driver for F
> 	i   exfat-utils      - utilities to create, check, label
>
> It might come handy in another occasion :)
>
> HTH
> Linux-Fan

  apropos is just another way of saying

$ man -k exfat

$ man man


  songbird