sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote:
> I would like to have tools such as grep available with some of the
> built in maxima functions in interactive sessions.
>
> for instance, suppose I have a lot user defined functions, and some of
> them have the characters "iter" in them.
>
> If I type
>
> functions
>
> then I get all of the functions back and I have to visually search for
> those which have "iter" in them.
>
> It would be nice if I could pipe the output of the
> functions
> command to a filter such as "grep": e.g., something like
>
> functions | grep iter
>
> to print out a list of only those user defined functions which have
> the expression "iter" in them.
>
> Is such a tool already available? If not, is there a simple routine
> which would do this?
>
>
Will apropos do what you want? It's basically the same as Lisp's apropos.
Ray