From 53ad30a63b4d5f80f713963835dee995f9546071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:09:47 +0000 Subject: [Bug 190] Put descs in alphabetical order git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1249 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/man-desc.xml | 32 ++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/man-desc.xml') diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.xml b/appendixa/man-desc.xml index 5842fed54..5461fbe51 100644 --- a/appendixa/man-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/man-desc.xml @@ -1,44 +1,32 @@ Contents -The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis +The Man package contains the apropos, makewhatis, man and whatis programs. Description -man - -man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. - - - apropos - apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard -output. - - - -whatis - -whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions -of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard -output. Only complete word matches are displayed. - - +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 -the NAME section of the manual page. +the NAME section of the manual page. - +man +man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. + +whatis +whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions +of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard +output. Only complete word matches are displayed. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf