[sf-lug] What's the command for ...; apropos, etc.

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Michael Paoli
<Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> E.g. want to schedule a command to run sometime in the future?
>
> $ apropos future later schedule | fgrep '(1'
> apmsleep (1)         - go into suspend or standby mode and wake-up later
> at (1)               - queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution
> atq (1)              - queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution
> atrm (1)             - queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution
> batch (1)            - queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution
> ps2pdf12 (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later
> compatible) using ghostscript
> ps2pdf13 (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later
> compatible) using ghostscript
> kalarm (1)           - Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler for KDE
> $
>
> I also used fgrep to limit to stuff in section 1 of the manual.

However, you could have avoided the pipe to fgrep with the '-s 1'
option passed to apropos :-)
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