From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GDtSA-0003O9-9M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:47:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7I1jHi1022202; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:45:17 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7I1hGXg006174 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:43:16 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so1295843nfc for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:43:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=R7lN8oKidMxy72tCEJExgB3KvbfmFjuvObTeeg51f6rxW99TXhylUtM9jY5OjVjkVoMwgrGtWyMZaRWon234OTUodG5T196PfRcyuAXpydLOXxaAIQTWS849rbFDtiKA2ELhfxo2QmLZMivuu2iGiQlJyOKdW0FYOuAmw11sorY= Received: by 10.49.29.3 with SMTP id g3mr3384008nfj; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.212.9 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9acccfe50608171843v32e4abc3s218fcfcec5ae1344@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:43:15 -0700 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up multiple man pages (how?) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 7295276f-5dca-4b75-a36d-c7422ea90cd7 X-Archives-Hash: d94546d590584f602ca8d54e2473cd59 I've noticed that the whereis(1) command gives multiple results for some queries. For instance, "whereis lilo" gives me kevin@treat ~ $ whatis lilo lilo (8) - install boot loader lilo.conf [lilo] (5) - configuration file for lilo lilo (8) - install boot loader lilo.conf [lilo] (5) - configuration file for lilo lilo (8) - install boot loader lilo.conf [lilo] (5) - configuration file for lilo kevin@treat ~ $ I surmise from this that there are multiple copies of the man pages in various historical hiding places. However, I can't get whereis or anything else to tell me where it found them. Is there some neat way to find the locations? I'd like to figure out which ones correspond to my actual software and to ditch the others. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list