From 2c094d60db777dce20fd4eccf4996299c2a0dfe0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Bauscher Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:08:29 +0000 Subject: Applied Bill Maltby's grammar patch. Changed $LFS to LFS where appropriate. Internal XML cleanup: removed double spacing where appropriate. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2138 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/man-desc.xml | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/man-desc.xml') diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.xml b/appendixa/man-desc.xml index 5793bd445..c8ac702b6 100644 --- a/appendixa/man-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/man-desc.xml @@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ whatis Descriptions apropos -apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions -of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard +apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing +short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard output. makewhatis makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of -catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each -line consists of the name of the page and a short description, -separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of +catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database. Each +line consists of the name of the page and a short description, +separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the NAME section of the manual page. man @@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ the NAME section of the manual page. man2html converts a manual page into html. whatis -whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions -of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard + +whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short +descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard output. Only complete word matches are displayed. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf