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I blew a few minds a week ago when I told my younger coworkers about man pages. I hit ‘em with the `man man` and one dude was like “whoa!”


Further blow their minds by showing them `apropos` https://manpages.debian.org/testing/man-db/apropos.1.en.html


I remember my first days with Linux/Unix and being taught about man and apropos and info. But somehow I could never find anything useful via apropos!

With many years of insight, I think I probably never updated the database.


man -k, apropos, but less to type


I'm 100% certain this is user error, but I have not once gotten apropos to give me any output other than "nothing appropriate."


Reminds me of the old canard of 'man woman'


man, cat, lynx... We're all just creatures in a vast universe


$ man -k <whatever>




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