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Re: man -k <word> : nothing appropriate


"Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector@telia.com> wrote in message
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> > From: Alex Vinokur
> > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 1:04 PM
>
> > $ man -k time
> > time: nothing appropriate
> >
> > $ man -k file
> > file: nothing appropriate
> >
> > What is wrong?
>
>  Did you _mean_ "-K" ?

I meant "-k", i.e., apropos

>
> $ man --help
> man, version 1.5j
>
> <SNIP>
>   k : same as apropos(1)
>   K : search for a string in all pages
> <SNIP>
>

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