[aclug-L] Re: cdrom problem

[lowell <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, bbales wrote:

> On Saturday 17 January 2004 17:46, you wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 04:18:32PM -0600, bbales wrote:
> > > Sometimes I wish there was a list of utilities with a one-line
> > > description of each one.  Guess it would be a long list.
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > man -k '' | sort | less
> 
> Well, that produces an interesting list.  Mine has 6,409 entries.  However, 
> it 
> is really not very useful as it does not contain locate, grep, sort, lsof, 
> mount, umount, reboot, less, more, mkdir, ls, wc, man, su or any of the 
> commands I frequently use.
> 
> What we need is something that will pull out line 4 of each of the man pages. 
>  
> Won't sed do something like that?
> bruce
> 
When I try this command and arguments, /usr/sbin/apropos doesn't like it. 
How come, I wonder...

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