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A long time ago I got an account on an old Unix machine (Irix? HP?), my first, I'd heard that you could get help by typing "man", so did so. The response was
by jjgreen 5y ago
A long time ago I got an account on an old Unix machine (Irix? HP?), my first, I'd heard that you could get help by typing "man", so did so. The response was
Apropos what?
which I thought so snooty that I laughed out-loud, and everyone in the room looked at me as if I were some kind of nut.
- rzzzt 5y ago$ man What manual page do you want? For example, try 'man man'. $ apropos apropos what? Apropos tries to find manual pages that may be relevant to the search string (which should go after "apropos").
- zvr 5y agoBack in the day, man(1), apropos(1) and whatis(1) were all links to the same executable, IIRC.