Keyword search in the online manual
Last Updated on Friday, 01 April 2011 18:27
Question:
Do a keyword (-k) search in the online manual for the word "grep". How many man PAGES are there where the word "grep" appears? What command did you use to get the result?
Answer:
To search for a specific keyword within online manual pages we can use a man -k command. For exmaple to search for a keyword grep we use:
man -k grep
another alternative to man command is apropos command:
apropos -k grep
Both commands will return the same number of results.
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