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From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong)
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Subject: Re: How to get all descriptor lines from man?
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Date: 19 Sep 89 15:32:33 GMT
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In article <31933@ames.arc.nasa.gov> gahooten@titan (Gregory A. Hooten) writes:
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}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.  I had a feeling
}that if I could get it to search for all vowels in the subject lines, then
}it would have to find all man entries, but have not found how to do this.
}
}Any help would be great.
}
}Greg Hooten
}GAHOOTEN@ames.arc.nasa.gov

Here's the one line command I use to do precisely that:

cat /usr/man/whatis | fold -132 | lpr -i2 -J "unix programs" &


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Norm   (strong@tc.fluke.com)