[aklug] Re: Geeky Topic of the Week: man pages

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Christopher Howard wrote:

<snip>

> You !@#!@$ idiot! RTFM! Any idiot can see that the answer is on line 457
> of the XYZ-UTIL(1) man page. Stop being a lazy #$!@# and do you homework
> first!
>
> And we are left thinking "I didn't even know there was an XYZ-UTIL man
> page," or "Jeepers, I read the XYZ-UTIL man page, but somehow I missed
> that note in line 457."
>
> So, maybe we need to write some kind of man page search engine, which
> would allow you to "Google" all the man page content on your system? Or
> maybe the man page system itself is flawed?

Uh, 'apropos {keyword}' or 'man -k {keyword}'? See man(1). ;-)

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Received on Fri Jul 9 14:21:31 2010