I am trying to search for keyword in manual pages, but it doesn't work here.
$ man -k syslog
Syslog: nothing appropriate.
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Jeff Schaller
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1Not sure what distro you are using, but its possible the man packages aren't installed. Here is some discussion about that on CentOS: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252530/how-to-install-man-pages-on-centos – guzzijason Oct 15 '18 at 05:46
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I Am using linux – Abhishek mehra Oct 15 '18 at 07:09
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2@Abhishekmehra Linux isn't a distro. – Sparhawk Oct 15 '18 at 07:14
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After installing new packages, their documentation (man pages) are installed but not yet loaded into the man pages search database. So, you should run
mandb
to generate or refresh the search database for manpage entries.
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