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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at issan dot informatik dot uni-dortmund dot de>
- Date: 16 Sep 1998 10:48:17 +0200
- Cc: cgweav at eskimo dot com (Clayton Weaver), egcs at cygnus dot com, glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
- References: <199809151723.SAA05846@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk> writes:
|> > If I am looking at the man page for some function, and this isn't quite
|> > the one I wanted, how do I find the one I do want if I have some keyword
|> > that I know is mentioned on the one that I want but I don't what the
|> > actual function name is?
|>
|> 'man -k keyword'
|> gives a list of man pages that contain keyword.
Hmm.
$ man -k SIGSEGV
SIGSEGV: nothing appropriate
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