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Diff for /mandoc/apropos.1 between version 1.10 and 1.11

version 1.10, 2011/11/29 00:41:33

version 1.11, 2011/11/29 10:53:42

Line 112 evaluates a substring, while

.Li \&~

evaluates a regular expression.

.It Fl i Ar term

Same as

.Ar term ,

but

.Ar term

is a regular expression, it

is evaluated case-insensitively.

Has no effect on substring terms.

.El

.Pp

By default,

Line 125 searches for

.Xr mandocdb 8

databases in the default paths stipulated by

.Xr man 1 ,

parses terms as case-insensitive regular expressions

parses terms as case-sensitive regular expressions

.Pq the Li \&~ operator

over manual names and descriptions

.Pq the Li \&Nm No and Li \&Nd No macro keys .

Line 238 Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are

Overridden by

.Fl M .

.El

.\" .Sh FILES

.Sh EXIT STATUS

.Ex -std

.Sh EXAMPLES

Search for

.Qq mdoc

within the manual name and description:

as a substring and regular expression

within each manual name and description:

.Pp

.Dl $ apropos mdoc

.Dl $ apropos ~^mdoc$

.Pp

Two variants of searching for

Include matches for

.Qq mdoc ,

.Qq roff

.Qq roff ,

and

.Qq man

within manual names and descriptions:

for the regular expression case:

.Pp

.Dl $ apropos mdoc roff man

.Dl $ apropos ~^mdoc$ roff man

.Dl $ apropos mdoc \-o roff \-o man

.Dl $ apropos ~^mdoc$ \-o roff \-o man

.Pp

Search for

.Qq optind

Line 264 and

.Qq optarg

as variable names in the library category:

.Pp

.Dl $ apropos \-s 3 \(dqVa~^optind$\(dq -a \(dqVa~^optarg$\(dq

.Dl $ apropos \-s 3 Va~^optind \-a Va~^optarg$

.Pp

Search for all manuals referencing

.Qq POSIX

in any letter case:

.Pp

.Dl $ apropos \-\- \-i posix

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr man 1 ,

.Xr mandoc 1 ,

.Xr re_format 7 ,

.Xr re_format 7

.Xr mandocdb 8

.Sh AUTHORS

The

.Nm

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