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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