[plug] Just introducing myself to the group

Leon Blackwell leon at lostrealm.com
Tue Sep 30 16:46:52 WST 2003


On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:29:37PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> It's not helped by the fact that 'the answer' can be in the local
> docs, but until you know that the command you want is `zqukkp-cfg`
> you're kind of stuck.

That's what "man -k" is for  :)


> One of my housemates is eternally lamenting the really rather stupid
> abbreviations used for common UNIX commands - passwd, especially, he
> seems to object to.

Yes, that's a nice example:

# man -k 'change.*password'

or even just:

# man -k password


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