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)BSD September 1, 2010 BSD
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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 -s section 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 5.10 14 Sep 1992 whatis(1)
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