On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:58:44AM -0600, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > Once upon a time, I used to use man -k a lot to find manpages that I > needed. But now, whenever I use man -k, it seems like the few > interesting pages I want (mostly from volume 1, but occasionally also > from 5 or 8), are overwhelmed by a flood of information about the Xt > and Tk libraries (volumes 3 and 3x). Is there any way to filter your > use of man? I poked around, but it seems that man -k is the same as > apropos, and apropos (which seems to be the same as whatis) doesn't > have a command line argument for volume number. Kind of a kludge, but something like this would help a little: man -k cat | grep -v 3x | grep -v \(3ssl\) Or you could try adjusting your /etc/manpath.config, if you are not often likely to care about certain volumes. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list