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 key-
     words.   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)