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From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: finding UNIX commands
Keywords: UNIX CBM 68030 "gangly"
Message-ID: <210@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Dec 89 07:15:36 GMT
References: <2318@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <38689@lanl.gov> <38703@lanl.gov> <10403@vdsvax.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore Amix Development
Lines: 16

In article <10403@vdsvax.crd.ge.com> perley@einstein (Donald P Perley) writes:
>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.

This is a Berekelyism that does not exist on standard SysV releases,
although it does exists on Amix.  It may exist in SysV4.0.

Pax, Keith

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ag@amix.commodore.com        Keith Gabryelski          ...!cbmvax!amix!ag