On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: > Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? > > Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could just > use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants: > > $ MANPAGER=head man gcc > GCC(1) GNU GCC(1) > > > > NAME > gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler > > SYNOPSIS > gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] > [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] > > Hope this helps, > -- > Bryan Thrall > Principal Software Engineer > FlightSafety International > bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com > >
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=apropos
