apropos - how is it maintained?

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Thu Dec 1 14:26:21 GMT 2005


Vizion <vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com> wrote:

> I had some difficulty in trying to trace a command that would give me
> a list of loaded devices.
> 
> I tried apropos and that did not help much.
> 
> So this raised in my mind the question - how  is apropos maintained?
> 
> Then I thought some more and wondered if a "better" tool could be
> devised.
> 
> So I have got even more interested in the question - "How is apropos 
> maintained?".It might tie in with some of the ideas I am pursuing on
> the use of XML to build a tool for facilitating some aspects of
> system maintenance.

less /usr/bin/apropos
man apropos
man makewhatis

Fabian
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