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Commands using apropos

Terminal - Commands using apropos - 5 results

apropos <part_rember> | less

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apropos pdf | less


acroread (1)         - Adobe PDF Viewer for viewing PDF files on X Window System.
dvipdf (1)           - Convert TeX DVI file to PDF using ghostscript and dvips
evince-thumbnailer (1) - create png thumbnails from PostScript and PDF documents
foomatic-ppdfile (1) - Generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo
ghostscript (1)      - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer)
gs (1)               - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer)
gsnd (1)             - Run ghostscript (PostScript and PDF engine) without display
pdf2dsc (1)          - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document
pdf2ps (1)           - Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator
pdffonts (1)         - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00)
pdfimages (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version 3.00)
pdfinfo (1)          - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.00)
pdfopt (1)           - Ghostscript PDF Optimizer
pdftohtml (1)        - program to convert pdf files into html, xml and png images
pdftoppm (1)         - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.00)
pdftops (1)          - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript converter (version 3.00)
pdftotext (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)
ps2ascii (1)         - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
ps2pdf (1)           - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
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
ps2pdf14 (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
ps2pdfwr (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying CompatibilityLevel, using ghostscript
(END)

2011-08-19 19:34:57

User: totti

Functions: apropos

Tags: less apropos

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Get full from half remembered commands

Show all commands having the part known by you.

Eg:

apropos pdf | less

apropos network |more

This is sample output - yours may be different.

/etc/network/interfaces (5) [interfaces] - network interface configuration fo...
aecho (1)            - send AppleTalk Echo Protocol packets to network hosts
amanda (8)           - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
amanda-client.conf (5) - Client configuration file for Amanda, the Advanced M...
amanda.conf (5)      - Main configuration file for Amanda, the Advanced Maryl...
aseqnet (1)          - ALSA sequencer connectors over network
avahi-autoipd (8)    - IPv4LL network address configuration daemon
ctstat (8)           - unified linux network statistics
dhclient-script (8)  - DHCP client network configuration script
dund (1)             - BlueZ Bluetooth dial-up networking daemon
fping (8)            - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
fping6 (8)           - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
ifconfig (8)         - configure a network interface
ifdown (8)           - take a network interface down
ifup (8)             - bring a network interface up
interfaces (5)       - network interface configuration for ifup and ifdown
iwconfig (8)         - configure a wireless network interface
iwgetid (8)          - Report ESSID, NWID or AP/Cell Address of wireless network
iwpriv (8)           - configure optionals (private) parameters of a wireless...
jng (5)              - JPEG Network Graphics (JNG) sub-format
knetattach (1)       - KDE Network Wizard
lft (8)              - print the route packets trace to network host
lft.db (8)           - print the route packets trace to network host
libmng (3)           - Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) Reference Librar...
libpng (3)           - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Reference Library 1.2....
lnstat (8)           - unified linux network statistics
mii-diag (8)         - Network adapter control and monitoring
mng (5)              - Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) format
mtr (8)              - a network diagnostic tool
nameif (8)           - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses
nbtscan (1)          - program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name informa...
netdevice (7)        - Low level access to Linux network devices
netstat (8)          - Print network connections, routing tables, interface s...
network-admin (1)    - Network Administration Tool
NetworkManager (8)   - network management daemon
NetworkManagerDispatcher (8) - daemon that runs commands in response to off/o...
networks (5)         - network name information
nm-tool (1)          - utility to report NetworkManager state
nm-vpn-properties (1) - Network management framework
nmap (1)             - Network exploration tool and security / port scanner
nstat (8)            - network statistics tools.
ntpd (8)             - Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon
pabrowse (1)         - List PulseAudio sound servers on the network
ping (8)             - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
ping6 (8)            - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
png (5)              - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format
rtacct (8)           - network statistics tools.
rtstat (8)           - unified linux network statistics
sane-net (5)         - SANE network backend
services (5)         - Internet network services list
slattach (8)         - attach a network interface to a serial line
smbtree (1)          - A text based smb network browser
tcpdump (8)          - dump traffic on a network
tcptraceroute (8)    - print the route packets trace to network host
tcptraceroute.db (8) - print the route packets trace to network host
tracepath (8)        - traces path to a network host discovering MTU along th...
tracepath6 (8)       - traces path to a network host discovering MTU along th...
traceproto (8)       - print the route packets trace to network host
traceproto.db (8)    - print the route packets trace to network host
traceroute (8)       - print the route packets trace to network host
traceroute-nanog (8) - print the route packets trace to network host
traceroute-nanog.db (8) - print the route packets trace to network host
traceroute.db (8)    - print the route packets trace to network host
traceroute6 (8)      - traces path to a network host
traceroute6.db (8)   - print the route packets trace to network host
traceroute6.iputils (8) - traces path to a network host
tracert (8)          - print the route packets trace to network host
tracert.db (8)       - print the route packets trace to network host
wget (1)             - The non-interactive network downloader.
wireshark (1)        - Interactively dump and analyze network traffic

2009-09-25 15:05:33

User: shaiss

Functions: apropos

Tags: Network , tools , apropos

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List Network Tools in Linux

Get all the networking related commands for your distro

apropos keyword

2009-05-28 18:44:45

User: tobiasboon

Functions: apropos

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greps the man pages to find utilities

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gdb command: apropos <keyword>

2009-05-01 23:19:35

User: kFiddle

Functions: apropos gdb

Tags: gdb apropos help

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Search gdb help pages

Most of you are probably familiar with the "apropos" command for searching man pages. However, did you know there's a similar command inside of gdb? If, for example, you wanted to know all gdb commands that related to threads, you could type "apropos thread". Type "help some_command" to receive more information about a command. Type "help" by itself to see a list of help topics.

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apropos somekeyword

2009-02-05 10:29:15

User: chrisdrew

Functions: apropos

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search the manual page names and descriptions

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