Little Girl wrote:
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>
> Hey Phil, good to see you again, and welcome to Ubuntu! I think
> I've got just the thing(s) for you. Try typing this in a terminal
> window:
>
> man -k . > ~/Desktop/manfiles.txt
>
> This will give you a text file named manfiles.txt (you can give it
> a different name if you like) on your desktop that contains a list
> of every man page on your computer. The commands will be on the
> left and a short description of each will be on the right. A small
> snippet from the one I just now created:
>
> ----------
> apt-key (8) - APT key management utility
> apt-secure (8) - Archive authentication support for APT
> apt-sortpkgs (1) - Utility to sort package index files
> apt.conf (5) - Configuration file for APT
How about simply:
man -k . | less
which will give you an up-to-the-minute list. If you want to cut
its content back to ensure some word is included, use:
man -k . | grep <name> | less
replacing <name> with whatever is of interest. And, whenever you
like your display, you can replace the final "| less" with ">
myfile.txt" to save that result.
To see what you are doing, look up the various commands above, i.e
look up man, less, grep. The art of unixing is to combine commands
to do just what you want.
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<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>
Try the download section.
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