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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:18:53 pm by BenStaz Revert
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 To search backwards: 
  
 *?<search> 
+  
+!Help I forgot the name of a command!  
+  
+In the man command you can specify a keyword to search for inside the description of the command you are looking for.  
+For example if you remembered the application had something to do with partitioning:  
+  
+*man -k partition  
+  
+Results in:  
+  
+cfdisk (8) - Curses based disk partition table manipulator for Linux  
+fdisk (8) - Partition table manipulator for Linux  
+parted (8) - a partition manipulation program  
+partprobe (8) - inform the OS of partition table changes  
+sfdisk (8) - Partition table manipulator for Linux  
+  
+With a bit of luck you will find the name of the application you are after :)