X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <31b7d2790711030808u47f04fa2s6ddbec066eec71a9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:08:46 -0500 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1194040754.13625.1219287897@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote: > * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +0000) > > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > > fulfill a certain purpose? > > apropos > > If using that, don't forget to run /usr/sbin/makewhatis first Jason@FROG-POND ~ $ apropos editor editor: nothing appropriate Jason@FROG-POND ~ $ /usr/sbin/makewhatis Jason@FROG-POND ~ $ apropos editor ed (1) - text editor psed (1) - a stream editor psed [s2p] (1) - a stream editor red [ed] (1) - text editor sed (1) - stream editor for filtering and transforming text vim (1) - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/