Hi,

Claus Assmann wrote on Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 05:18:14PM +0100:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Claus Assmann wrote on Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 09:25:27AM +0100:

>>> I didn't find a hint about pkg-readmes in the man pages :-(

>>    $ man -k any=pkg-readmes

> I only tried
> man -k pkg-readmes

Right, the reason Nm,Nd= is the default with -k and not any= is
that any= can be quite noisy (and in addition, there is tradition).
The reason i used any= here anyway was that i wanted to check
completeness of manual pages rather than merely read some.

If you want to know what a file is that doesn't have its own
manual page, try Pa=.  Compare

  $ man -k Pa=words      # explains /usr/share/dict/words
  $ man -k words         # a small amount of random stuff
  $ man -k Nm,Nd=words        # the same
  $ man -k any=words     # lots of noise

Yours,
  Ingo

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