Re: error report

On 2010-08-26, Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've tried using man -k many times. I hardly ever find what I need with
it. AFAIK, it just searches the summary lines of all the commands. How
often is the relevant keyword in there?

Surprisingly often if you happen to have a good intuition for the right
keywords. :)

But I would hardly fault someone for not knowing where to look for an
obscure option to a random command.

To be fair, "uniq -c" is not something I'd regard as very obscure, but...

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