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)