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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net 952-929-1659 _______________________________________________ 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