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Re: Apropos not working
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Re: Apropos not working


  • Subject: Re: Apropos not working
  • From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:17:11 +0700

> On 3 Nov 2014, at 10:14, Walter McCreary <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Lose the hyphen:
> /usr/libexec/makewhatis
>
Excellent.

I was mislead by the man page for whatis, which says:

The  whatis  database  is  created using the command /usr/libexec/make-
       whatis.

Thanks a lot!


Kind regards

Gerriet.

>
>> On Nov 2, 2014, at 18:45, Gerriet M. Denkmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> After installing the latest Xcode command line tools (which do not mention man pages though):
>> man getaddrinfo works.
>>
>> But apropos getaddrinfo says: "getaddrinfo: nothing appropriate".
>>
>> Tried to run /usr/libexec/make-whatis but:
>> -bash: /usr/libexec/make-whatis: No such file or directory
>>
>> whereis make-whatis returns nothing.
>>
>> So: how to get apropos working?
>>
>> Gerriet.


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