Dec 22, 2020

Searching man pages

Search for commands, functions, or key words in man pages using the man -k or apropos command:

jemurray@shell:~$ man -k regex
re_comp (3)          - BSD regex functions
re_exec (3)          - BSD regex functions
regcomp (3)          - POSIX regex functions
regerror (3)         - POSIX regex functions
regex (3)            - POSIX regex functions
regex (7)            - POSIX.2 regular expressions
regexec (3)          - POSIX regex functions
regfree (3)          - POSIX regex functions