bsd man page for whatis

WHATIS(1)						      General Commands Manual							 WHATIS(1)

NAME
       whatis - describe what a command is

SYNOPSIS
       whatis command ...

DESCRIPTION
       Whatis  looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual section.  You can then run the man(1) command to get more infor-
       mation.	If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man section name' to get the documentation for it.  Try `whatis  ed'  and  then
       you should do `man 1 ed' to get the manual.

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

FILES
       /usr/man/whatis	   Data base

SEE ALSO
       man(1), catman(8)

4th Berkeley Distribution					    May 7, 1986 							 WHATIS(1)