[clug] Circumflex

[Kim Holburn]

Oh, apparently man -k does regex

Here are some basics of regex pattern matching:

http://webagility.com/posts/the-basics-of-regex-explained 

It's a very powerful system of pattern matching that has a high learning curve.

> On 2017/Aug/17, at 7:00 PM, Kim Holburn via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> That would be a glob or a regex.
> 
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>> On 2017/Aug/17, at 6:25 PM, Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
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>> I was reading about manual section numbers. Then I came across '^'. Where is it explained?
>> 
>> {
>> You can tell what sections a term falls in with man -k (equivalent to the apropos command). It will do substring matches too (e.g. it will show sprintf if you run man -k printf), so you need to use ^term to limit it:
>> }
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>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3586/what-do-the-numbers-in-a-man-page-mean#3587
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