New: apropos2, an improved apropos command

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tony Nelson wrote:

>Apropos is a command in the man package that shows entries in the whatis
>database that match a search word.  Often there are many matches, and one
>might like to winnow them down by typing more words.  Instead, apropos
>prints all the matches for each word, making the problem worse.  One can
>pipe the apropos output to grep, but I have something better.
>
><http://georgeanelson.com/apropos2.htm>
>
Might consider putting this in Fedora Extras

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras

>This list is about all I know.  Where would be other good places to
>publicize an improved apropos, so that people who would benefit from it
>(but might not be looking for it) will notice it?
>  
>
Freshmeat is one. Consider writing an article about this and posting in 
news sites if you want to go further

regards
Rahul