When working in Linux, I read lot of man pages for different commands while looking for some helpful information on how to use the command. But sometimes it’s hard to find a correct man page, because you have to know the exact man page’s name. Apropos is a man page searcher that works like a little google search on your Linux box and let you find a man page that you are looking for.
I didn’t know about this amazing command while I haven’t found it in an article at http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/614
[root@pldmachine ~]# which apropos
ReplyDelete/usr/bin/which: no apropos in (/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/sbin:/root/bin)
[root@pldmachine ~]#
So it is not standard Linux package... just some addional tool.
Well, yeah, you are right. It's in the man-db package.
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