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From: poole@ut-emx.UUCP (Steve Poole)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How to get all descriptor lines from man?
Message-ID: <18434@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 89 18:07:12 GMT
References: <31933@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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In article <31933@ames.arc.nasa.gov> gahooten@titan (Gregory A. Hooten) writes:
>
>I was trying to find a way to get all of the descriptor lines from the man
>pages in Unixa BSD 4.3.


I tried the following two commands using the -k option of man.
They both seem to give all of the short command descriptions.

man -k ""
man -k "-"

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