whatis(1) [ultrix man page]
whatis(1) General Commands Manual whatis(1) Name whatis - display command description Syntax whatis command... Description The command looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual section. You can then run the command to get more informa- tion. If the line starts ``name(section) ...'' you can do ``man section name'' to get the documentation for it. Try ``whatis ed'' and then you should do ``man 1 ed'' to get the manual. The command is actually just the -f option to the command. Files /usr/lib/whatis Data base See Also man(1), catman(8) whatis(1)
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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)