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Old 07-28-2003
Need help with a simple command
You don't know the name of the command that could do a particular task. What command could you run to find the name of the command?
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Old 07-28-2003
None that I know of....thus comes the long honored tradition of reading man pages for fun and profit.

Best way to find commands that may be what you are looking for is to try the man page for one command and then look at the SEE ALSO section.

For the ls command,

SEE ALSO
chmod(1), cp(1), setfacl(1), terminfo(4), attributes(5),
environ(5), largefile(5), XPG4(5)

Other than that, there are some web pages and threads on this site that mention commands and what they do.
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Old 07-29-2003
Do a "man man" and read about the -k option.
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Old 07-29-2003
man -k
use "man -k <subject>" command
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Old 07-30-2003
I thought you could use apropos for such a thing...

Like you type apropos and then what you think the command you're looking for might do.

example

apropos list
 
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