Embora não seja tão completo quanto o google, você pode encontrar comandos locais com apropos
. Por exemplo:
$ apropos "disk space"
df (1) - report file system disk space usage
apropos
pesquisa por páginas do manual. Seu argumento pode conter curingas ( apropos -w
) ou um regex ( apropos -r
).
man apropos
explica:
Each manual page has a short description available within it. apropos searches the descriptions for instances of keyword. keyword is usually a regular expression, as if (-r) was used, or may contain wildcards (-w), or match the exact keyword (-e). Using these options, it may be necessary to quote the keyword or escape (\) the special characters to stop the shell from interpreting them. The standard matching rules allow matches to be made against the page name and word boundaries in the descrip‐ tion.