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apropos is the same as 'man -k', if I'm not mistaken -- the output is identical from both commands for any given keyword. Regardless of which version of the command is used, I still prefer to add the "grep" on the end to restrict the answers to programs which I can run, as opposed to all commands which contain the keyword.
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Tks. This is a great tip for those of us who want to learn Unix the casual way.
Being the lazy type, I dropped the following in my aliases.mine:
alias whatisit 'man -k !* | grepNow I simply type in terminal %whatisit memory and tada!
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Hi there,
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Hehe - had the slash the wrong way....
corrected
Sorry I missed the end of the code at the end of my post (gobbled by my html tags):
alias whatisit 'man -k !* | grep (1'Hope nobody scratched his head too long on that one, sorry! |
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