[OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages

Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Wed Sep 16 01:48:00 GMT 1998


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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