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Can someone please tell me how to write a script to determine for each word in a set whether a UNIX manual page exists for it? Thanks!

Name: David Perry
Date: May 23, 2003 at 08:24:50 Pacific

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for manpages in tar ls cat unknown ; do if [ `man $manpages 2>&1 | grep -c "^No manual"` -gt 0 ] ; then echo "No man pages found for $manpages" fi done

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Name: WilliamRobertson
Date: May 26, 2003 at 16:33:53 Pacific

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Or: for cmd in tar cat unknown do man -w $cmd 2>&- >&- && print $cmd done

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