Using the docs.sun.com Web Site

Examples of Search Syntax

The following table provides examples of search syntax.

Table 2–1 Search Syntax Examples

Example 

Description 

solaris 

Finds documents that contain lowercase and capitalized instances of this word. 

JumpStart 

Finds documents that contain words matching the uppercase, lowercase, and mixed case spelling of this word, for example, jumpstart, JumpStart, and JUMPSTART. 

Solaris JumpStart 

Finds documents that contain these words anywhere in the document and in any order. 

Solaris + JumpStart 

Finds documents that contain one or both of these two words or the plus sign (+) anywhere in the document and in any order. For example, the docs.sun.com site finds JumpStart and the plus sign (+) in this text: 

Task Map: CD-ROM + Diskette Custom JumpStart Installations. 


Note –

The docs.sun.com Web site treats the plus sign (+), ampersand (&), pipe symbol (|), greater than symbol (>), minus sign (-), and the words “and” and “or” as unique words rather than as search operators.


"Solaris JumpStart" 

Finds documents that contain these two words anywhere in the document, in this order, in uppercase, lowercase, and mixed case, even if punctuation appears between these two words. 

"Solaris JumpStart" "Solaris Installation" 

Finds documents that contain both the phrases Solaris JumpStart and Solaris Installation, in any order, in uppercase, lowercase, and mixed case, even if punctuation appears between the words in one or both of these phrases. 

806-682* 

Finds documents that contain the part numbers 806–6829, 806–6828, and 806–6827. 

"Solaris 9 System Administrator Collection" 

Finds documents that contain the phrase Solaris 9 System Administrator Collection in the text. 


Note –

The titles of collections of books are not indexed. You can not display the contents of a collection by searching for the collection's title.