On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On 2003-06-18 18:04 -0700, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I'm sitting here typing "date" over and over but she doesn't appear. :)
*lament* None of my fellow nerds have quite the sense of humour I expected! > Peter, You specified it using sysinstall, which you can do again; alternately, Gregory, thank you for your response. And, ah, yes, you are so right. Now I recall that part of sysinstall!! > 'man tzsetup' for the direct command. 'man tzset' for the relevant > functions in libc. durrrrrrrr *drools and runs `man -k timezone` and sees tzsetup* > I'd also like to help you find things on your system more easily. > I suspect you don't know about the 'apropos' command (aka 'man -k'), > which shows you short descriptions of system commands relevant to > keywords you give it. In your example, 'apropos timezone' includes > the correct results. Apropos isn't the greatest search tool ever > but it usually gives you what you need if you search for the base(s) > of your search needs. 'apropos zone' shows a small (usable) list, > and even 'apropos time' works if you want to sort through a bunch > of results. Yeah yeah yeah . . . I gave up after running `man timezone` and being told about C functions that parts of the compiled OS use *smiles* > (You can also use 'locate' to find things on your system, but the > timezone example is really bad (3 levels of indirection through C > functions before you find out about tzsetup) so I won't go into detail.) > Greg "locate" is evil -- I much prefer `find . -iname "*something*" -print` :) Does locate offer real-world "manpage examples" (which are badly-needed)? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
