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From: rick@leadsv.UUCP (Rick Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Online Guru ..
Summary: on line Guru (sort of)
Message-ID: <2061@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 21:50:58 GMT
References: <2665@shamash.UUCP>
Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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In article <2665@shamash.UUCP>, jwabik@shamash.UUCP (Jeff Wabik) writes:
>                                                   "Online Guru"..
> Software that you could literally ask, "How to I do disk backups", to
> which the response would be, "Dump is the UNIX utility that [...].
> Please see the manual page for dump(8) for further [...]."


There is an option for the "man" command that does a keyword search of the
man pages.  

For instance the answer to the question "How do I find what directory a file is
in?" can be found by typing:

     man -k find

This command will produce the following output:

find (1)		- find files
help (1)		- an easy way to find and use information
indxbib, lookbib (1)	- build inverted index for a bibliography, find references in a bibliography
look (1)		- find lines in a sorted list
lorder (1)		- find ordering relation for an object library
man (1)			- find manual information by keywords; print out the manual
pfind (1P)		- find files in projects
refer (1)		- find and insert literature references in documents
spell, spellin, spellout (1)	- find spelling errors
strings (1)		- find the printable strings in a object, or other binary, file
ttynam, isatty (3F)	- find name of a terminal port
ttyname, isatty, ttyslot (3)	- find name of a terminal

There is one problem with this if the keyword you are looking for does not 
appear in the man page's header.  Dump will not be identified by 
"man -k backup", but will be identified with any of the words in the dump man
page header: "dump, rdump - incremental file system dump".