netbsd man page for whatis

WHATIS(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 WHATIS(1)

NAME
     whatis -- describe what a command is

SYNOPSIS
     whatis command ...

DESCRIPTION
     The whatis program queries the database /var/db/man.db for manual pages with name command and prints the name of the manual page, the section
     and the description from the section NAME.

SEE ALSO
     apropos(1), makemandb(8)

HISTORY
     The whatis command appeared in 3.0BSD.  It was rewritten in NetBSD 6.0 to use the SQLite index created by makemandb(8).

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