15 May
Search Your Man Pages: apropos
You may or may not know this before, there is a utility named apropos, which enables you to search within you man pages installed on your system. Which is infact very usefull when you know what you are about to do, but no clue about with, and where.
For example:
$ apropos ethernet ethers (5) - Ethernet address to IP number database ethtool (8) - Display or change ethernet card settings sk98lin (4) - Marvell/SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet driver v6.21
or;
$ man -k ethernet ethers (5) - Ethernet address to IP number database ethtool (8) - Display or change ethernet card settings sk98lin (4) - Marvell/SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet driver v6.21
The real problem here is (for me at least), “apropos” is real hard word to remember itself and it’s a bit ironic when you think of its purpose. So I think, may be writing a post about it helps me to remember it better.
The name of the application “À propos” means “about” in french.
Maybe you could use about as an alias.