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From: perley@einstein (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: finding UNIX commands
Keywords: UNIX CBM 68030 "gangly"
Message-ID: <10403@vdsvax.crd.ge.com>
Date: 15 Dec 89 16:36:55 GMT
References: <2318@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <38689@lanl.gov> <38703@lanl.gov>
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In-reply-to: tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish)

In article <38703@lanl.gov>, tjf@lanl (Tom J Farish) writes:

>want to do a DIRectory?   Use 'ls' of course!
>Want to REName a file?  Use 'mv' of course!

others write:
 
> 	complaints about how do you find a command in the manual
>	if you don't know what the command is.

"man -k <string>" will search for commands that have <string> in the short
description, so you don't have to know the name of the command to find it.

Try something like "man -k directory" which should give you all the commands
having to do with directories. (including 'ls')

"man -k rename" would likewise tell you about 'mv', among other things that
do renaming.

hope this helps.

-don perley


perley@trub.crd.ge.com