man redirect error

[Thrall, Bryan]

Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04: 
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
>> Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis?
>> 
>> Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could
>> just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=apropos

Yes, I know :-)

I was trying to suggest apropos might be what the OP was trying to find while also providing a literal solution to his problem.
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Bryan Thrall
Principal Software Engineer
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com