1Begin3 2Title: whichman, ftff, ftwhich -- Fault tolerant search utilities 3Version: 2.3 4Entered-date: 19JAN04 5Description: whichman uses a fault tolerant approximate matching algorithm 6 to search for man-pages that match approximately the 7 specified name. It can be used to locate the right page 8 in case the man-page is available in several sections. 9 The fault tolerant matching is very useful in cases where 10 you remember only roughly the name of a command. 11 Example: whichman netwhat This finds netstat.8: 12 /usr/man/man8/netstat.8 13 The package contains also a fault tolerant file find utility (ftff) 14 and a fault tolerant version of the "which" command (ftwhich). 15 Both use the same algorithm as whichman. 16 The error tolerant approximate string match is based on 17 the Levenshtein Distance between two strings. This is a 18 measure for the number of replacements, insertions and 19 deletions that are necessary to transform string A into string B 20Keywords: man, which, search, find 21Author: guido@linuxfocus.org (Guido Socher) 22Maintained-by: guido(at)linuxfocus.org (Guido Socher) 23Primary-site: www.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/apps/doctools/ 24 1k whichman-2.2.lsm 25 19k whichman-2.2.tar.gz 26Original-site: http://main.linuxfocus.org/~guido/ 27Platforms: Linux, probably any Unix 28Copying-policy: GPL 29End 30 31