X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,MISSING_HEADERS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Subject: RE: man redirect error Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:47:56 -0600 Message-ID: <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD3601FD180B@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> In-Reply-To: <1325707977.7212.4.camel@raker2.ateb.com> References: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F203C949C7@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <1325687660.28537.1.camel@raker2.ateb.com> <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD3601FD162A@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> <1325707977.7212.4.camel@raker2.ateb.com> From: "Thrall, Bryan" CC: , "Thrall, Bryan" 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id q04KmJNU005395 Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04: > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >> Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? >> >> Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could >> just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants: > > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=apropos Yes, I know :-) I was trying to suggest apropos might be what the OP was trying to find while also providing a literal solution to his problem. -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com