Inverted manpages? - programs listed by function?
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Jul 19 17:08:09 UTC 2006
Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Wed, July 19, 2006 7:00 am, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>> To a (limited) degree, that's what apropos does - a program that's
>> been around since the dawn of Unix (approximately). Admittedly, it
>> only works for programs you already have installed - but so does
>> "man".
>
> Apropos is a synonym for "man -k". They do the same thing (except man
> -k is a lot easier to type).
Doh! I guess I never learned that because "apropos" is easier to type
(honestly :-) ).
--
derek
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