APROPOS(1) APROPOS(1)
NAME
apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup
SYNOPSIS
apropos keyword ...
DESCRIPTION
Apropos shows which manual sections contain instances of any of the
given keywords in their title. Each word is considered separately and
case of letters is ignored. Words which are part of other words are
considered thus looking for compile will hit all instances of `com-
piler' also. Try
apropos password
and
apropos editor
If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man section name' to
get the documentation for it. Try `apropos format' and then `man 3s
printf' to get the manual on the subroutine printf.
Apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command.
FILES
/usr/lib/whatis data base
SEE ALSO
man(1), whatis(1), catman(8)
AUTHOR
William Joy
24 February 1979 APROPOS(1)
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