apropos(1) behavior

[beavers]

Is there a way to get apropos(1) to search the full text of man pages? For instance, running `apropos dkim` returns nothing, but smtpd.conf(5) definitely references 'dkimproxy'.

[jggimi]

I think you'd need to consider enhancing makewhatis(1), as that's the indexer.

[beavers]

Heh heh, "patches welcome."

While I'm learning to program, using a search engine will hold me over.

[TronDD]

Am I wrong if I just

grep -r something /usr/share/man/

And add whatever other man directories that might be needed.

[jggimi]

I think you mean grep -R. See grep(1).

[TronDD]

So I guess I was wrong.

-r still works and is what I have always used. Probably finger memory carried over from Linux.

Same for cp -r/-R

[fvgit]

man -k any=dkim

[TronDD]

Yes. There's the winner. I will promptly forget that again and go back to grep -r. Lowercase.

[fvgit]

You could always set an easy to remember alias in your profile.

[TronDD]

I already forgot. I just had to come back here and look up the command.

[fvgit]

Speaking of forgetting, forget what I wrote about aliases. It won't work with a command like this.

Instead, you can put sth. like this in your profile:

ms() {
        man -k any=$1;
}

then you can type

ms dkim

in the shell. Change 'ms' to whatever suits your needs or doesn't escape your memory. For instance sth. like 'mansearch' to give you an idea.