It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.
vec ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:29 PM Subject: apropos does nothing > Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn > thing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls > ls: nothing appropriate. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos apropos > apropos: nothing appropriate. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ mkwhatis > bash: mkwhatis: command not found > > How do I get it to work? > > -jwb > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
