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man pages - they are searchable
28 March 2000
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I learned something the other day on undernet #freebsd which I think
everyone should know. You can search a man page. WOW! It appears that man accepts vi-like commands. The search command is /texttosearchfor. For example, if you are looking at man dump, and you want to find references to tape, you should type this:
This will take you to the next occurrence of the word tape. To go to the next occurrence, just type:
And ? will take you to the previous occurrence. Other commands I have found are:
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