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Re: man -k <word> : nothing appropriate
"Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector@telia.com> wrote in message
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> > From: Alex Vinokur
> > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 1:04 PM
>
> > $ man -k time
> > time: nothing appropriate
> >
> > $ man -k file
> > file: nothing appropriate
> >
> > What is wrong?
>
> Did you _mean_ "-K" ?
I meant "-k", i.e., apropos
>
> $ man --help
> man, version 1.5j
>
> <SNIP>
> k : same as apropos(1)
> K : search for a string in all pages
> <SNIP>
>
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