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imwally
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I blew a few minds a week ago when I told my younger coworkers about man pages. I hit ‘em with the `man man` and one dude was like “whoa!”
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AndrewDavis
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Further blow their minds by showing them `apropos`
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/man-db/apropos.1.en.html
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riffraff
1 day ago
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I remember my first days with Linux/Unix and being taught about man and apropos and info. But somehow I could never find anything useful via apropos!
With many years of insight, I think I probably never updated the database.
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coldpie
1 day ago
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I'm 100% certain this is user error, but I have not once gotten apropos to give me any output other than "nothing appropriate."
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SEJeff
1 day ago
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man -k, apropos, but less to type
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bombcar
1 day ago
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Reminds me of the old canard of 'man woman'
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Aardwolf
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man, cat, lynx... We're all just creatures in a vast universe
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aa-jv
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$ man -k <whatever>
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