Query: whatis
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WHATIS(1) General Commands Manual WHATIS(1)NAMEwhatis - describe what a command isSYNOPSISwhatis command ...DESCRIPTIONWhatis 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 baseSEE ALSOman(1), catman(8) 4th Berkeley Distribution May 7, 1986 WHATIS(1)