How to find the name of the man page of something?
You're looking for apropos
; on my system apropos luks
points me to cryptsetup(8)
, luksformat(8)
and a number of other relevant manpages.
apropos
, which is equivalent to man -k
, looks in the installed manpages' names and descriptions for the search text given on its command line. The search text can include regular expressions or shell-style globs (with apropos
, using the -r
or -w
options; -r
is the default).
man -K
allows searching in all the contents of all the installed manpages. This takes longer than apropos
or man -k
.
(Thanks to Stephen Harris and clusterdude for the extra clarification.)
Try using apropos
, it will search in the titles / descriptions of manual pages for a certain string :
apropos luks