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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| c004a4b5 | 5 | .\" @(#)whatis.1 6.3 (Berkeley) %G% |
| ff5e54c1 | 6 | .\" |
| 5e1ce5c1 | 7 | .TH WHATIS 1 "" |
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8 | .UC 4 |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | whatis \- describe what a command is | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .B whatis | |
| 13 | command ... | |
| 14 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 15 | .I Whatis | |
| 9599c24a | 16 | looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual section. |
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17 | You can then run the |
| 18 | .IR man (1) | |
| 19 | command to get more information. | |
| 20 | If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do | |
| 21 | `man section name' to get the documentation for it. | |
| 22 | Try `whatis ed' and then you should do `man 1 ed' to get the manual. | |
| 23 | .PP | |
| 24 | .I Whatis | |
| 25 | is actually just the | |
| 26 | .B \-f | |
| 27 | option to the | |
| 28 | .IR man (1) | |
| 29 | command. | |
| 30 | .SH FILES | |
| 31 | .DT | |
| 8fd02ef7 | 32 | /usr/man/whatis Data base |
| ff5e54c1 | 33 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 9599c24a | 34 | man(1), catman(8) |