For some odd reason, the "whatis" command in my Unix shell (cygwin) is not working. It constantly returns "ls: nothing appropriate" or "cd: nothing appropriate". I'm wondering if there is something incorrectly set-up. Does anyone have any light to shed? Thanks!
5 Answers
Run sudo mandb once
Not sure if this helps, but when I ran mandb, I got this (over several attempts).
mandb
0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
0 manual pages were added.
0 stray cats were added.
0 old database entries were purged.
However,
sudo mandb
75 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
7235 manual pages were added.
0 stray cats were added.
0 old database entries were purged.
worked for real.
My problem was fixed by running #mandb command
[root@localhost log]# whatis last
last (1) - show a listing of last logged in users
[root@localhost log]#
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