[NTLUG:Discuss] Strings in BASH, an easier way?

[terry]

man -k . | egrep '\(8\)|\(1\)' | less

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:59 AM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about?:
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> man -k .
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> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Leroy Tennison
> <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
>> David Stanaway wrote:
>>> Why mess around?
>>>
>>> whatis -r .
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>>> Robert Citek wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Leroy Tennison
>>>> <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> for i in `echo $PATH | cut -d: -f1-30 --output-delimiter=" "`; do
>>>>> for j in `ls -1 $i`; do apropos $j; read; done;
>>>>> done
>>>>>
>>>>> Not only is this a little more verbose than I want but the -f parameter
>>>>> is a little "brittle" in that there doesn't appear to be any to say
>>>>> "however many fields there are".
>>>>>
>>>> Just leave off the last number:
>>>>
>>>> echo $PATH | cut -d: -f1- --output-delimiter=" "
>>>>
>>>> IHMO, once you're getting into moderately sophisticated data
>>>> structures (e.g. arrays), you're better off with a scripting language
>>>> like awk.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> - Robert
>>>>
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>> WOW, for the specific example this is the best solution yet.
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