Posted by: Administrator
on July 26, 2005 04:46 AM
Apropos, like the locate entry above, is a useful tool, but it requires you to build a database for it to work. Most distro's that use apropos use "makewhatis" to build the whatis db from existing man pages in the man path,usually in a cron job.
"whatis" (mentioned in the article itself) and "apropos" both work from the whatis database. "apropos" searches whatis for strings, "whatis" searches for complete words.
NB -- You can get the same functionality that apropos gives you by using "man -k"
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Re:Another one: apropos
Posted by: Administrator on July 26, 2005 04:46 AM"whatis" (mentioned in the article itself) and "apropos" both work from the whatis database. "apropos" searches whatis for strings, "whatis" searches for complete words.
NB -- You can get the same functionality that apropos gives you by using "man -k"
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