07-07-2006
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Originally Posted by blowtorch
That was helpful because the link pointed to the search page, a utility that too few of our members use before asking questions. Many of the questions asked have been answered before, and a search might have provided whatsup with the answer.
I understand what the search function does - I use it myself. However, a user in need of some assistance may not know what search terms to use. Can you at least provide some search terms that may begin to answer the question? My reply took a couple of minutes (including testing to make sure I didn't have syntax issues), and I still didn't give out a complete answer, although enough for someone to figure out one way of doing what they want.
You may as well say "Try 'man bash'". Why even bother responding? Can you find a search string that matches what the user asked?
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search
search.h(3HEAD) Headers search.h(3HEAD)
NAME
search.h, search - search tables
SYNOPSIS
#include <search.h>
DESCRIPTION
The <search.h> header defines the ENTRY type for structure entry, which includes the following members:
char *key
void *data
and defines ACTION and VISIT as enumeration data types through type definitions as follows:
enum { FIND, ENTER } ACTION;
enum { preorder, postorder, endorder, leaf } VISIT;
The size_t type is defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types.h(3HEAD).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
hsearch(3C), insque(3C), lsearch(3C), tsearch(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)
SunOS 5.11 10 Sep 2004 search.h(3HEAD)