Linux commands
Duane Attaway
dattaway at dattaway.org
Wed Dec 25 15:08:37 CST 2002
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Rick wrote:
> Thanks all for the help, but maybe I should not have said I was familiar
> with man and info. Can anyone tell me if within man pages, info or
> anywhere within bash that there is a command that will list all the
> commands in alphabetical order with a brief description of each??
All of them? Uh oh...
apropos does regular expressions, so...
apropos . | grep "("[1245678]")" | less
the dot means everything. We might want to grep only the type of man
pages too. Man pages are stored by category from 1 to 8. Our pager,
less, will allow us to scroll through the list with our arrow keys and do
searches with the "/" command.
Choose the numbers in the grep set to narrow down your search:
Type Description
Number -----------
------
1 General Command
2 System Calls
3 Library Functions
4 Kernel Interfaces
5 File Formats
6 Games
7 Miscellaneous Information
8 System Manager's Manuals
9 Kernel Developer's Manual
Let me know if that doesn't do the trick...
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