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Probably dumb question about apropos

From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer at wayne dot edu>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:59:41 -0400
Subject: Probably dumb question about apropos

I don't think this is specific to my machine so I'll forego the cygcheck stuff. If it develops I'm wrong I'll do it...

I did "makewhatis -w" to get the database. When I do an apropos command each entry has [] after the name:

$ apropos perl
a2p []               (1)  - Awk to Perl translator
alias []             (3)  - declare symbolic aliases for perl data
B []                 (3)  - The Perl Compiler
...

What's that [] stuff? It doesn't happen on Ubuntu.

Castigation, denigration and mastication cheerfully accepted. ~tm

-- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA


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