A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)

Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by throwaway2048 on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:28AM (#24373285)

apropos

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Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by somesortofsystm on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:45AM (#24373390)

man -k "key words of the thing i'm searching for"

^^ also works fine ..

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Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by imglorp on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:24AM (#24373620)

Finding man, cold from a prompt, is hard. If you type help, even today, you might get the shell one which doesn't take you there. Ditto info.

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Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by imglorp on Friday September 04, 2020 @08:51AM (#24374440)

Oops, looks like Bash at least accounted for this case. Really, I think you want to route new user to "man intro" first, if they just asked for help.

    $ help
    GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
    These shell commands are defined internally.  Type `help' to see this list.
    Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.
    Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.
    Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this list.

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Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by FabHK on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:57AM (#24374961)

Current macOS (Catalina with zsh):

   (base) user@myMachine ~ % help
   zsh: command not found: help

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