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Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Monday, April 7, 2003 10:53:53 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Sunday, April 6, 2003 8:51:12 pm | by zcat(1) | Revert |
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sections="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 n l"
Remove the __"3"__. Run __/usr/sbin/makewhatis__ again, and the section (3) entries will be gone.
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+--GlynWebster
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-__alias apropos='apropos | grep -v "(3)"'__ does the same job, and is a little easier to undo when you happen to
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be programming and want those entries back..
+__alias apropos='apropos | grep -v "(3)"'__ does the same job, and is a little easier to undo when you happen to be programming and want those entries back.. --zcat(1)
+True, but does ''anyone'' use man(1) to look up programming documention? --GlynWebster
+All the time! Whenever I'm programming in [C] or [C++] (or occasionally [Python] and [Perl], if calling libc functions from there). What better way to refresh your memory of the correct order of arguments for memset(3), or to find out which header files you need to #include if you want to call the inet_addr(3) function? Sure beats getting out of the chair and finding a reference book :) --JohnMcPherson
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[1] This where Mandrake and RedHat keep __makewhatis__. [YMMV].