Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!xylogics!world!madd From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Simple question responses on comp.unix.questions. Keywords: civility vs asininity Message-ID: <1989Nov13.195946.15743@world.std.com> Date: 13 Nov 89 19:59:46 GMT References: <20589@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Organization: Software Tool & Die Lines: 11 yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes: >One day an ex-student asked me if there was a way to find files. [...] >Well, I looked using man -k and found nothing. Out of curiousity, just what did you ask man -k for? All of the obvious keywords (eg "find" and "file") found the find(1) man page, whose short description would have rung bells in my head and obliviated the need for a posting.... jim frost madd@std.com