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On July 15, 2002 03:43 pm, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 09:54:00PM -0400, Sasha Kuperman wrote:
> > Hi everyone. Thanks for all the help so far.
> >
> > I 'm new to linux and I 'm trying to learn it and related details, so I
> > have a few questions regarding documentation. I 've read some of the
> > "Apology to manual readers " thread and I got a some good information and
> > some ideas from it.
> >
> > Firstly, is there some logical topic by topic way/program to read the
> > manual pages instead of getting an alphabetical list of commands/entries
> > by section? I noticed that some of the sections to the man pages have
> > "Intro " pages that say something like "This is the section on <x >, check
> > the headers of each manual page for authors... "
>
> ook at man -k and man -K
Thanks. I didn 't know about man -K. That helps.
How do you get apropos/whatis/man -k to search for multiple-word strings
ie apropos firewall chains ?
Sasha
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