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Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword
HI, and thanks. That works a charm. Hopefully this will also be of help
in the future to others.
Have a great weekend.
H.
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:08:46 -0500, "DePriest, Jason R."
<jrdepriest@gmail.com> said:
> On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote:
> > * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +0000)
> > > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My
> > > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that
> > > fulfill a certain purpose?
> >
> > apropos
> >
> >
>
> If using that, don't forget to run /usr/sbin/makewhatis first
>
> Jason@FROG-POND ~
> $ apropos editor
> editor: nothing appropriate
>
> Jason@FROG-POND ~
> $ /usr/sbin/makewhatis
>
> Jason@FROG-POND ~
> $ apropos editor
> ed (1) - text editor
> psed (1) - a stream editor
> psed [s2p] (1) - a stream editor
> red [ed] (1) - text editor
> sed (1) - stream editor for filtering and transforming
> text
> vim (1) - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
>
> -Jason
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