| man -O tag=L ls
would search for the L tag in the ls(1) man page, or there's man -akO tag Ic=ulimit
to find whatever the ulimit thing is or for an even more general search a small wrapper along the lines of #!/bin/sh
man -akO tag="$1" any="$1"
may help, unless you are not on OpenBSD, in which case you may wish for the droolsauce and energy waste that is AI because the documentation on your OS is probably some sort of evolving train wreck (man pages -> gun info -> README from 2003 -> web pages, increasingly bloated and behind the iron curtain of javascript -> ??? -> Singularity! Three hails for our Saint Kurzweil!!). Back when I supported Linux I might just run strace on the process because who knew if there was documentation (maybe?) or if it was accurate (sometimes?) and function info { /usr/bin/info "$@" 2>/dev/null | $PAGER; }
is at least a ksh function for making info somewhat less terrible. |
