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Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword
On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote:
> * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +0000)
> > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My
> > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that
> > fulfill a certain purpose?
>
> apropos
>
>
If using that, don't forget to run /usr/sbin/makewhatis first
Jason@FROG-POND ~
$ apropos editor
editor: nothing appropriate
Jason@FROG-POND ~
$ /usr/sbin/makewhatis
Jason@FROG-POND ~
$ apropos editor
ed (1) - text editor
psed (1) - a stream editor
psed [s2p] (1) - a stream editor
red [ed] (1) - text editor
sed (1) - stream editor for filtering and transforming text
vim (1) - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
-Jason
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