From: Andrew Diller (dillera_at_sudanacid.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 11:04:02 PST
Unix Tip 'O the Day: man -k is easier to spell than apropos.
$ man -k [some term]
-andy diller
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Jim Anderson wrote:
> That's what the "apropos" command is for. If you want to find
> out something about (say) any coffee-related commands, you'd run
> "apropos coffee", and it would come back with a list of man pages that
> deal with coffee. Granted, it doesn't do any sort of analysis to figure
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