Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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basic searching can be done with
man -k keyword | more
From my article:
Perhaps some search command for man pages would be useful here (not apropos, that has never produced sensible answer for me).
Apropos, at least for me, is identical to man -k (as indeed indicated by the man man-page). Neither have ever been remotely useful for me. Mostly because they a) don't sort results by relevance and b) don't have any obvious way of restricting search to particular sections. I keep a load of API docs in man on my machine and searching always brings up a metric truck-load of Tk and Qt docs.