whatis(1) [minix man page]

WHATIS(1)						      General Commands Manual							 WHATIS(1)

NAME

       whatis, apropos - give single line descriptions for manual pages

SYNOPSIS

       whatis [-a] title
       apropos keyword

DESCRIPTION

       Whatis  lists  the  one	line description from the whatis(5) database describing the title given.  It displays all the lines with the title
       from the first whatis file that has those titles.  It uses the same search path as man(1).

       Apropos searches through all whatis files for the given keywords.  It lists any line that has the keyword anywhere on the line.

OPTIONS

       -a     Search all whatis files.

SEE ALSO

       man(1), grep(1), whatis(5).

AUTHOR

       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

																	 WHATIS(1)

APROPOS(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						APROPOS(1)

NAME

     apropos, whatis -- keyword search whatis documentation databases

SYNOPSIS

     apropos [-d] keyword ...
     whatis [-d] keyword ...

DESCRIPTION

     The apropos utility searches a set of databases looking for documentation matching each keyword and displays the results.	The whatis utility
     does the same search but only on complete words.

     -d  Print extra debugging information.

     The keyword is simply passed to grep(1) allowing for extended regular expression matches.

ENVIRONMENT

     The following environment variables affect the execution of apropos:

     MANLOCALES, MANPATH, PATH
	    Used to find the location of the whatis database files. See manpath(1) for additional information.

     PAGER  Program used to display files.  If unset, more -s is used.

DIAGNOSTICS

     The apropos utility exits 0 if a keyword matched and 1 if no keywords are matched or no whatis databases are found.

SEE ALSO

     grep(1), makewhatis(1), man(1), manpath(1), man.conf(5)

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