apropos

  1. tembun

    Solved How to update makewhatis(8) every time the port is installed?

    I usually have a situation that I have just installed a port and I immediately want to find an appropriate manual page for it using apropos, but it can't locate it. The reason why is that apropos uses the database generated by makewhatis and since it has not been re-generated after the...
    • tembun
    • Thread
    • apropos makewhatis man pages periodic ports
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: General
  2. razetime

    man page for apropos(1) references nonexistent options from page for man(1)

    Environment: FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE releng/13.2-n254617-525ecfdad597 GENERIC RPi 400 The listing for apropos(1), under the Description heading, after the options are listed, contains the following line: I found that -c and -l were not documented in man(1). On further inspection man(1) stated...
    • razetime
    • Thread
    • apropos documentation man
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: General
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