Begin3 Title: whichman, ftff, ftwhich -- Fault tolerant search utilities Version: 2.1 Entered-date: 07OCT03 Description: whichman uses a fault tolerant approximate matching algorithm to search for man-pages that match approximately the specified name. It can be used to locate the right page in case the man-page is available in several sections. The fault tolerant matching is very useful in cases where you remember only roughly the name of a command. Example: whichman netwhat This finds netstat.8: /usr/man/man8/netstat.8 The package contains also a fault tolerant file find utility (ftff) and a fault tolerant version of the "which" command (ftwhich). Both use the same algorithm as whichman. The error tolerant approximate string match is based on the Levenshtein Distance between two strings. This is a measure for the number of replacements, insertions and deletions that are necessary to transform string A into string B Keywords: man, which, search, find Author: guido@linuxfocus.org (Guido Socher) Maintained-by: guido@linuxfocus.org (Guido Socher) Primary-site: www.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/apps/doctools/ 1k whichman-2.1.lsm 19k whichman-2.1.tar.gz Original-site: http://www.linuxfocus.org/~guido/ Platforms: Linux, probably any Unix Copying-policy: GPL End