> Thanks for the informations, I managed to find an easy way to look in > the big "man bash" :) hmm.. you know that you can search in a man page? type /show[enter] and it will look first the first instance of the word show. type /[enter], and it will look for the next instance. voila :-) > so I found a bash.1.gz, I un-gzip-ed it, launched a > grep show bash.1 -n zgrep would have worked nicely, and you could have kept to file compressed. see also zless, zcat. hope this tricks come in handy. maarten
