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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Clearify what it means under 'WHAT' when hit the 'w'-command Post 17302 by LivinFree on Wednesday 13th of March 2002 09:15:08 AM
Old 03-13-2002
Typically, "What" is what the user is curently doing, if anything. TOP must be some sort of application (are you sure it wasn't 'top'?), as would "gosh". The lines after it are probably command-line options given to the program. See if wither one has a man page to learn about it. Try "man gosh".
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

whatis

whatis(1)							   User Commands							 whatis(1)

NAME

       whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword

SYNOPSIS

       whatis command...

DESCRIPTION

       whatis  looks  up  a  given  command  and displays the header line from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more
       information. If the line starts name(section)... you can do man -ssection name to get the documentation for it.	Try whatis ed and then you
       should do man -s 1 ed to get the manual page for ed(1).

       whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.

       whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database.	This database is created by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail.

FILES

       /usr/share/man/windex	Table of contents and keyword database

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWdoc			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    14 Sep 1992 							 whatis(1)
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