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

[Leroy Tennison]

Robert Citek wrote:
> Do they give the same results?
> 
> $ whatis  -r . | sort | uniq | wc -l
> 4728
> 
> $ man -k . | sort | uniq | wc -l
> 4728
> 
> $ for i in $(echo $PATH | cut -d: -f1- --output-delimiter=" "); do
>   for j in $(ls -1 $i) ; do
>     apropos $j
>   done
> done | sort | uniq | wc -l
> apropos: fatal: regex `[': Invalid regular expression
> 4688
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:59 AM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about?:
>>
>> man -k .
> 
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I suspect not because apropos returns a number of "nothing appropriate" 
responses.  I don't know about your machine but the apropos approach is 
taking quite a bit of resources on my PC.