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Subject: Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword
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Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:08:27 +0000
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HI, and thanks.  That works a charm. Hopefully this will also be of help
in the future to others.

Have a great weekend.

H.

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:08:46 -0500, "DePriest, Jason R."
<jrdepriest@gmail.com> said:
> 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
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