APROPOS(nged)

💅 apropos — the glow-up search for mged help

Okay bestie, so you're in mged, you know a command exists, you just cannot remember what it's called 😭 — that's literally what apropos is for. It's from the nged manual fam. It searches mged command help and manual pages for keywords. Slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

apropos [-k|-K] {keyword}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So apropos goes digging through the mged command manual pages and shows you the commands that match — and not just in a random heap either, it gives them to you in ranked order 👑. Iconic behavior honestly.

Now here's the vibe check on the two modes:

• default (no flag, just vibing) — searches command names, synopses, and brief descriptions. Same thing happens if you pass -k.
• -K — the full-send mode. It searches the entire text of the command manual pages. Bigger net, more results, main character energy 🌈.

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Example 1. List commands having region in their names, synopses, or descriptions.

mged>apropos region

    build_region eac edcodes edcomb em idents item lm r rcodes read_muves red
    regdef regions reid remat summary wcodes whatid whichair whichid

Example 2. List commands whose full manual page text contains boolean operations.

mged>apropos -K "boolean operations"

    bev ev region facetize search npush comb r bigE nmg_fix_normals exists tol

Look at that — one little flag change and you get a whole different squad of commands 🫶. Note the quoted multi-word keyword in example 2, bestie, that's the move.

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

The BRL-CAD Team wrote this one. Legends, fr fr.

💌 BUG REPORTS 💌

Found a bug? A problem? A little oopsie? 🙈 Don't sit on it — send electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org so the team can fix it. They wanna hear from you, no cap.

💖 that's the whole page, you're basically an apropos expert now 💖 — this was BRL-CAD, the APROPOS(nged) page, brought to you by the BRL-CAD crew. go find those commands, bestie 💅✨