apropos(1) [bsd man page]

APROPOS(1)						      General Commands Manual							APROPOS(1)

NAME

       apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

SYNOPSIS

       apropos keyword ...

DESCRIPTION

       Apropos	shows which manual sections contain instances of any of the given keywords in their title.  Each word is considered separately and
       case of letters is ignored.  Words which are part of other words are considered; thus, when looking for	compile,  apropos  will  find  all
       instances of `compiler' also.  Try

	      apropos password

       and

	      apropos editor

       If  the	line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man section name' to get the documentation for it.	Try `apropos format' and then `man
       3s printf' to get the manual on the subroutine printf.

       Apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command.

FILES

       /usr/man/whatis		data base

SEE ALSO

       man(1), whatis(1), catman(8)

AUTHOR

       William Joy

7th Edition							   June 5, 1986 							APROPOS(1)

APROPOS(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						APROPOS(1)

NAME

     apropos, whatis -- keyword search whatis documentation databases

SYNOPSIS

     apropos [-d] keyword ...
     whatis [-d] keyword ...

DESCRIPTION

     The apropos utility searches a set of databases looking for documentation matching each keyword and displays the results.	The whatis utility
     does the same search but only on complete words.

     -d  Print extra debugging information.

     The keyword is simply passed to grep(1) allowing for extended regular expression matches.

ENVIRONMENT

     The following environment variables affect the execution of apropos:

     MANLOCALES, MANPATH, PATH
	    Used to find the location of the whatis database files. See manpath(1) for additional information.

     PAGER  Program used to display files.  If unset, more -s is used.

DIAGNOSTICS

     The apropos utility exits 0 if a keyword matched and 1 if no keywords are matched or no whatis databases are found.

SEE ALSO

     grep(1), makewhatis(1), man(1), manpath(1), man.conf(5)

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