[aclug-L] Re: cdrom problem

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Goerzen wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:46:24PM -0600, Tom Hull wrote:
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>>>What error message do you get?
>>>      
>>>
>>$ man -k ''
>>   usage: apropos keyword ...
>>   Error executing formatting or display command.
>>   System command /usr/bin/apropos  exited with status 256.
>>    
>>
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>Bah.  Sounds like they don't accept an empty string as a valid regular
>expression!
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>Try this:
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>man -k '.*' | sort | less
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That works, except it produces output like this

411toppm             (1)  - convert Sony Mavica .411 image to PPM
411toppm             (1)  - convert Sony Mavica .411 image to PPM
a2p                  (1)  - Awk to Perl translator
a2p                  (1)  - Awk to Perl translator
a2ps                 (1)  - format files for printing on a PostScript 
printer
a2ps                 (1)  - format files for printing on a PostScript 
printer
a64l                 (3)  - convert between long and base-64
a64l                 (3)  - convert between long and base-64
aaxine               (1)  - an ASCII art video player
aaxine               (1)  - an ASCII art video player

I changed it to read
man -k '.*' | sort -u | less
and it then works as expected.



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