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.Dd April 2, 2013 |
.Dd November 22, 2013 |
.Dt APROPOS 1 |
.Dt APROPOS 1 |
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.Sh NAME |
.Sh NAME |
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utility performs a full text search over the complete content of all man pages. |
utility performs a full text search over the complete content of all man pages. |
It uses the FTS engine of Sqlite to perform the search. |
It uses the FTS engine of Sqlite to perform the search. |
The database is created with the help of |
The database is created with the help of the |
.Xr makemandb 8 |
.Xr makemandb 8 |
utility. |
utility. |
.Pp |
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This implementation of the |
This implementation of the |
.Nm |
.Nm |
utility is more sophisticated than the classical version of |
utility is more sophisticated than the classical version. |
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Like modern search applications, it uses advanced techniques like stemming |
Like modern search applications, it uses advanced techniques like stemming |
and term weighting to rank the matching results in decreasing order of |
and term weighting to rank the matching results in decreasing order of |
relevance. |
relevance. |