On 2026-02-28 G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Here it is as a shell function you can put in your
> .bashrc (or startup file for some other POSIX shell).
>
> # Search for a word in a given man page.
> #
> # Equivalent examples (if using man-db man): tagman am 7 groff
> # tagman am 'groff(7)'
> # tagman am -s 7 groff
> tagman () {
> word=$1
> shift
> man "$@" | "${PAGER:-less}" -c '+/[^a-zA-Z0-9]'"$word"'[^a-zA-Z0-9]'
> }
[ By accident, I sent this to Branden in private mail ]
Thanks for this, Branden.
Alexis: most(1) needs the "-r" switch to use regular expressions.
Regards,
Morten
