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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How to get all descriptor lines from man?
Message-ID: <1989Sep17.145110.16126@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 89 18:51:11 GMT
References: <31933@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <1989Sep16.191339.8597@twwells.com>
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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 know there is a function that allows the
>: descriptor line from a chosen subject, but I want all subjects.

Easy.  "man -k xxx" finds all descriptions of manual entries with "xxx" in
them (Keyword search).  The trick is to realize that man -k uses
a regular expression search.  (or at least mine does... on second thought
yours might not... in that case search for something that occurs in
every description, like a bracket "(" or ")".)  A regular expression's
"wildcard" is a period (.) so I use "man -k ."

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I know that may sound naive and, you may argue that the world is not really
like that, yet, someone must start trusting sometime.   --  Andy Philips

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