whatis(1) General Commands Manual whatis(1)
NAME
whatis - search the whatis database for complete words.
SYNOPSIS
whatis keyword ...
DESCRIPTION
whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the stan-
dard output. Only complete word matches are displayed.
The whatis database is created using the command /usr/libexec/makewhatis.
AUTHOR
John W. Eaton was the original author of man. Zeyd M. Ben-Halim released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3 thru
1.5p. Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer.
SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1).
September 19, 2005 whatis(1)
