minix man page for whatis

WHATIS(1)						      General Commands Manual							 WHATIS(1)

NAME
       whatis, apropos - give single line descriptions for manual pages

SYNOPSIS
       whatis [-a] title
       apropos keyword

DESCRIPTION
       Whatis  lists  the  one	line description from the whatis(5) database describing the title given.  It displays all the lines with the title
       from the first whatis file that has those titles.  It uses the same search path as man(1).

       Apropos searches through all whatis files for the given keywords.  It lists any line that has the keyword anywhere on the line.

OPTIONS
       -a     Search all whatis files.

SEE ALSO
       man(1), grep(1), whatis(5).

AUTHOR
       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

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