I started looking at the man man page and tried:
man -K <section> <string>

but I was not happy with the results. Notice that the 'K' is upper case.

Robert P. Goldman wrote:
> [Warning:  This is almost certainly a dumb question.]
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> R
> 
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