On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:05, Vector wrote: > It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find > instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file > location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.
Okay fine. But on slackware I can do 'man -K pthread' and get every manual page on the whole system that mentions pthread. What is the equivalent funtion on Debian? And please dont say: for page in `find /usr/share/man`; do zgrep whatever $page; done; 'cuz that just ain't what I'm looking for. -jwb
