Searching a keyword in man

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I am trying to search for keyword in manual pages, but it doesn't work here.



$ man -k syslog
Syslog: nothing appropriate.









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    Not sure what distro you are using, but its possible the man packages aren't installed. Here is some discussion about that on CentOS: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252530/…
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I am trying to search for keyword in manual pages, but it doesn't work here.



$ man -k syslog
Syslog: nothing appropriate.









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    Not sure what distro you are using, but its possible the man packages aren't installed. Here is some discussion about that on CentOS: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252530/…
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I am trying to search for keyword in manual pages, but it doesn't work here.



$ man -k syslog
Syslog: nothing appropriate.









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I am trying to search for keyword in manual pages, but it doesn't work here.



$ man -k syslog
Syslog: nothing appropriate.






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    Not sure what distro you are using, but its possible the man packages aren't installed. Here is some discussion about that on CentOS: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252530/…
    – guzzijason
    41 mins ago












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    Not sure what distro you are using, but its possible the man packages aren't installed. Here is some discussion about that on CentOS: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252530/…
    – guzzijason
    41 mins ago







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Not sure what distro you are using, but its possible the man packages aren't installed. Here is some discussion about that on CentOS: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252530/…
– guzzijason
41 mins ago




Not sure what distro you are using, but its possible the man packages aren't installed. Here is some discussion about that on CentOS: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252530/…
– guzzijason
41 mins ago















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