Linux commands

[david nicol]

I'll suggest xman, the GUI interface to the manual.  There are a variety
of reasons why "a command that will list all the commands in
alphabetical order with a brief description of each" is neither possible
nor desirable, but if I shared them I'd have to bill you.

On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 08:31, 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??

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