WHATIS(1) General Commands Manual WHATIS(1)
NAME
whatis - describe what a command is
SYNOPSIS
whatis command ...
DESCRIPTION
Whatis looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more infor-
mation. 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.
Whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.
FILES
/usr/man/whatis Data base
SEE ALSO
man(1), catman(8)
4th Berkeley Distribution May 7, 1986 WHATIS(1)
