Content-type: text/html <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Manual Pages - Text Search</TITLE> <!-- Changed by: Michael Hamilton, 6-Apr-1996 --> <!-- Note: this is not html, but requires preprocessing --> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>Manual Pages - Text Search</H1> <A HREF="%cg/man2html">Return to Main Contents</A> <P> <ISINDEX> %lynx <i>Start a query</i> by typing an s. Examples: <UL> <LI><TT>pwd;directory</TT> - Find both in the same man page. <LI><TT>pwd,directory</TT> - Find either. <LI><TT>pwd directory</TT> - Find the exact phrase. <LI><TT>-F 1 pwd</TT> - Look in section 1 only. <LI><TT>-B glipmse</TT> - Find the best match (allow for misspelling). <LI><TT>-L 0:10 pwd</TT> - Only show the first 10 man pages matched. </UL> <HR> <P> The index uses the <I>Glimpse</I> (<A HREF="%cg/man2html?1+glimpse">glimpse(1)</A>) text indexing system. Many of the glimpse options, regular expressions, and wildcards are valid: see the <A HREF="%cg/mansearchhelp">help page</A> for a summary. <P> <HR> <P> Glimpse was developed by Udi Manber and Burra Gopal of the University of Arizona, and Sun Wu of the National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan. You may contact the authors at <A HREF="mailto:glimpse@cs.arizona.edu"> glimpse@cs.arizona.edu</A> <P> The Manual Page text search interface was created for Linux by <A HREF="mailto:michael@actrix.gen.nz"> Michael Hamilton</A>. </BODY> </HTML>