change file names

Dan Coutu coutu at snowy-owl.com
Tue Feb 21 11:49:00 EST 2006


Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2006, at 10:51, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
>
>> I use "apropos" a lot, but it is just not the same as the printed man 
>> pages.
>
> You're on to something there.
>
> It got me thinking, "so what's the good modern-day equivalent that 
> doesn't involve dead trees"? At first I thought, well there must be an 
> RSS feed for "Man Page of the Day".  There's one fella who has a 
> sub-section of his blog dedicated to that which he updates once every 
> several months.
For a long time I've liked the xman program in order to browse man 
pages. I typically invoke it with the -notopbox switch to minimize 
screen clutter.

It shows you all of the available man pages, sorted alphabetically, in a 
given section. Handy.

Dan



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