On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote: > * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +0000) > > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > > fulfill a certain purpose? > > apropos > >
If using that, don't forget to run /usr/sbin/makewhatis first [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ apropos editor editor: nothing appropriate [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/sbin/makewhatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ apropos editor ed (1) - text editor psed (1) - a stream editor psed [s2p] (1) - a stream editor red [ed] (1) - text editor sed (1) - stream editor for filtering and transforming text vim (1) - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
