We can search whole man page using man -wK.
We can get the git subcommands using git help -a. We can get common git guides using git help -g.
For an overview of the system we can use git help git. To check the man page of a particular subcommand we can use, for example git help add. To check the man page of a particular guides we can use, for example git help cli.
I am interested to search the whole git (its subcommands, guides and overview man pages).
How can I do that?
I usually:
Documentation foldergit grep "The-term-I-want-know-about"That will search in all:
For commands (not guides):
git --list-cmds=main,builtins | xargs -n 1 -I {} man git {} | cat | less You could also expand that list.
For guides:
git --list-cmds=list-guide | xargs -n 1 -I {} man git{} | cat | less That’s a separate invocation since those are spelled e.g. giteveryday.
If you want both of them at the same time:
cmds=$(mktemp) git --list-cmds=main,builtins | xargs -n 1 -I {} man git {} | cat > $cmds guides=$(mktemp) git --list-cmds=list-guide | xargs -n 1 -I {} man git{} | cat > $guides cat $cmds $guides | less rm $cmds $guides 