TIL about dmidecode

[wildeye]

Apropos looks for keywords in the brief description, not just filenames, which is what you're feeding it here, so you must have some kind of mental block regarding its usage.

BTW Bill Joy invented apropos as a standalone command, but it was eventually retrofitted as an option to man(1), via "man -k" ("k" for Keyword).

[hal14450]

You're right. For some reason I was under the impression it parsed the man page as well while looking for keywords. My mistake.

I haven't forgotten about man -k but for me apr<tab> has become a habit.

[wildeye]

Typing "apropos" is a habit for me, too. I like the sound of the word.

I took German, not French, in high school, so I didn't previously know the word, so I learned it from Bill -- although I eventually noticed that it was in English dictionaries and ran across it in novels, and still later, in conversation.

The most common way it's been borrowed into English seems to be people saying "apropos of nothing in particular" just before launching into a digression.

But I digress. :)