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I believe the command you're looking for is "apropos". In the modern era everyone just uses google to answer questions like that anyway, GUI or CLI. vlm@dev:~
by VLM 12y ago
I believe the command you're looking for is "apropos". In the modern era everyone just uses google to answer questions like that anyway, GUI or CLI.
vlm@dev:~$ apropos permissions
access (2) - check real user's permissions for a file
chmod (2) - change permissions of a file
eaccess (3) - check effective user's permissions for a file
euidaccess (3) - check effective user's permissions for a file
faccessat (2) - check user's permissions of a file relative to a directory file descriptor
fchmod (2) - change permissions of a file
fchmodat (2) - change permissions of a file relative to a directory file descriptor
ioperm (2) - set port input/output permissions
WWW::RobotRules (3pm) - database of robots.txt-derived permissions
vlm@dev:~$
- qu4z-2 12y agoAlternatively man -k permissions works for me even on some systems that don't have the apropos command.
- dredmorbius 12y agoapropos is often an alias, shell function, or script wrapper around 'man -k'. Actually, on my Debian system, it's a symlink to whatis(1).