[Toybox] interesting new (?) env(1) options

[enh]

to be clear, i actually just meant a quick way to search the toybox help
--- a way to ask toybox "which of your commands have something to do with
$x". not an actual "grep the man pages". (which i don't think *needs* a
precomputed database in 2024, even if it did in 1994. tbh, i'm pretty sure
aix didn't have a database in 1994 --- it was impossibly slow.)

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 16:10 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 3/17/24 15:10, Ivo van Poorten wrote:
> >> In THEORY each man page has a "name" section with a one line
> >> description, and there should be a way to emit them all, but if
> >> there's a standard way to do it without writing a shell script I
> >> dunno what it is. I generally just do
> >
> > It looks like apropos is just man -k.
> ...
> > Lots of not so useful output though:
> >
> > $ apropos ls | wc -l
> > 548
> > $ man -k ls | wc -l
> > 548
>
> And "man -k ." lists them all. Good to know.
>
> $ man -k . | wc -l
> 8645
>
> Yeah, lots of debris, but that's a distro issue. No obvious way to limit
> it by
> section either...
>
> $ man -k . | sort -t'(' -k2,2n | less
>
> Eh, sort of reasonable-ish? Assuming you care about allcm, bibdoiadd and
> blueman-report...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
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