Re: Re: Fred Linux Annoyance List

> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:10:53 +0100
> From: Robin Green <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Annoyances] Fred Linux Annoyance List.
> To: "Seeking Linux annoyances for a book."
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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:09:24AM -0400, Fred P. wrote:
> > 2) Some man pages are WAY too long, you scroll for years 
> with zillions 
> > of
> > options, gcc comes to mind,
> >    and you cannot find the one you REALLY want.
> 
> Try pinfo gcc
> 

<<<Snipped for brevity's sake>>>>

You can also use the "/" operator while in the man page to search for
keywords.

Just type:

/<keyword that you are looking for>

Then hit enter and the page will jump to the first occurrence of that
word.  If it isn't right, type / again and then enter (without the
keyword) and it will jump to the next instance.

I use this all the time and it is a life/time saver.

So in the man page for gcc, I would type:

/optimize 

if I was interested in optimizations on the command line (I pulled this
out of the air... it might be a bad example).  Then I could jump along
down the page to each keyword (it also gets highlighted so you don't
have to search the screen for what it found.

Highly useful stuff.

Jim

*All opinions are my own and not those of anyone else or any other
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