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  From: Alex Wallis <awol@prepaidonline.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 22:01:37 +0930

Re: Man Pages

Even easier, since most linux distro's use less to read man pages you
can use /pattern to search for pattern while reading a man page. Read
the less man page sometime.

Alex

Mark Newton wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:44:10PM +0930, davidn@rebel.net.au wrote:
> 
>  >   find /usr/share/man -type f -print -exec gunzip {} \| grep KEYWORD \;
> 
> You're doing it the hard way :-)
> 
>    zgrep KEYWORD /usr/share/man/*/*
> 
> (which has the additional advantage of working whether your manpages
> are compressed or not)
> 
>    - mark
> 
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