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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How do I get a list of UNIX C functions?
Message-ID: <597@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 27 Dec 90 16:25:58 GMT
References: <1990Dec26.055716.11975@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: NEC America Inc. SSD, Irving, TX
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In article <1990Dec26.055716.11975@news.cs.indiana.edu>,
anlhille@rose.ucs.indiana.edu (Joseph Hillenburg) writes:

> I know I can type 'man <function>' but how do I get just the huge list of
> C functions?

Here is one way.  It relies on the fact that the man pages have a NAME
section that looks like:

.SH NAME
function \- description

cat /usr/man/man3/* |awk '
/^\.SH.*NAME/   { p = 1; next }
p == 1          { print; p = 0 }
'
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