apropos – what is that :)
October20
Apropos is the command which search the entire manual (man) page entries and its description.
what is the usage of this command ?
we can easily get the Linux commands using the search word.
example :
The below output is for the search word “network”
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 | $ apropos network /etc/network/interfaces (5) [interfaces] - network interface configuration for ifup and ifdown aseqnet (1) - ALSA sequencer connectors over network avahi-autoipd (8) - IPv4LL network address configuration daemon bittorrent-downloader.bittorrent (1) - download files using a scatter-gather network btdownloadcurses (1) - download files using a scatter-gather network btdownloadcurses.bittorrent (1) - download files using a scatter-gather network btdownloadgui (1) - download files using a scatter-gather network btdownloadgui.bittorrent (1) - download files using a scatter-gather network btdownloadheadless (1) - download files using a scatter-gather network btdownloadheadless.bittorrent (1) - download files using a scatter-gather network ctstat (8) - unified linux network statistics dhclient-script (8) - DHCP client network configuration script display-tele (7) - Forwards the display over a network ifconfig (8) - configure a network interface ifdown (8) - take a network interface down ifup (8) - bring a network interface up interfaces (5) - network interface configuration for ifup and ifdown iwconfig (8) - configure a wireless network interface iwgetid (8) - Report ESSID, NWID or AP/Cell Address of wireless network iwpriv (8) - configure optionals (private) parameters of a wireless network interface jng (5) - JPEG Network Graphics (JNG) sub-format libmng (3) - Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) Reference Library 1.0.9 libpng (3) - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Reference Library 1.2.27 lnstat (8) - unified linux network statistics mng (5) - Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) format mtr (8) - a network diagnostic tool nameif (8) - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses Net::Cmd (3perl) - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc) Net::Time (3perl) - time and daytime network client interface netdevice (7) - Low level access to Linux network devices netstat (8) - Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships network-admin (1) - Network Administration Tool NetworkManager (8) - network management daemon networks (5) - network name information nm-tool (1) - utility to report NetworkManager state nm-vpn-properties (1) - Network management framework nmap (1) - Network exploration tool and security / port scanner nstat (8) - network statistics tools. pabrowse (1) - List PulseAudio sound servers on the network perlfaq9 (1) - Networking ($Revision: 8539 $) ping (8) - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts ping6 (8) - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts png (5) - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format rtacct (8) - network statistics tools. rtstat (8) - unified linux network statistics sane-net (5) - SANE network backend saned (8) - SANE network daemon services (5) - Internet network services list slattach (8) - attach a network interface to a serial line smbtree (1) - A text based smb network browser tcpdump (8) - dump traffic on a network tracepath (8) - traces path to a network host discovering MTU along this path tracepath6 (8) - traces path to a network host discovering MTU along this path traceroute6 (8) - traces path to a network host traceroute6.iputils (8) - traces path to a network host wget (1) - The non-interactive network downloader. |
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