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 Searching Specific Documents

By default, the findme command will search your entire documentation set, consisting of all the documents found on the HTX_PATH search path.gif

However, you can restrict the search to specific documents by listing them after the keyword you are searching for, thus:

findme targets sun188

would find information about "targets" in this document. This is often a useful way of finding reference information once you are reasonably familiar with a document's contents. Restricting the search to a specific document will also make it far more rapid.

You may specify as many documents to search as you want. If you do not give explicit directory information, the HTX_PATH search path will be used to locate them.



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HTX Hypertext Cross-Reference Utilities
Starlink User Note 188
R.F. Warren-Smith
6th January 1998
E-mail:rfws@star.rl.ac.uk