mojave man page for whatis

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)