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Question Answered By: Adah Miller   on Dec 17

This may seem odd, but I have to ask: how in the world did you know
that "grip" copies CDs? I never would have guessed that in a million
years.

A similar problem exists with many other programs that accompany and/or
are available for a distro.

One could open two terminal windows and do an "ls" in one and do a
"man <xyz>" in the other window against all <xyz> displayed by "ls",
but that'll take awhile. And there's often multiple programs which
all purport to do the same thing, so which does one use?

Contrast that with many programs whose purpose is easily recognized or
discerned by their names, for example sendmail, cdrecord, xterm, etc.

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