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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: SKsh completion bug.
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Date: 12 Mar 90 19:04:34 GMT
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In article <1414@watserv1.waterloo.edu> mann@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann) writes:
>In article <13664@nigel.udel.EDU> new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>>I was also bothered by the fact that the UNIX man command could not
>>"do" its own wildcard expansion.  Thus, I could not "man *seek*" and find
>>out all the seek-like functions.  
>Try man -k seek (-k is the keyword option)  And when you are done, try 
>man man :-)

Smiley appriciated.  Two problems tho:  management does not run "makewhatis"
very often, and I really wanted to do command completion, not wildcard
expansion.  I just thought I would simplify some.  (BTW, man -k only
gives you the names of the pages, not the pages themselves.  You still have
to type them in or do some shell magic.)

Besides, this illustrates my point!  The shell wildcarding was inappropriate,
so I had to use a separate command (-k option of man) and a separate
wildcard syntax (assumed caseless search of *mypattern*) because man
did not do its own wildcard expansion.  so there!   :-P

			  -- Darren :-)