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| 1bc32681 | 1 | .\" @(#)apropos.1 6.4 (Berkeley) %G% |
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| f0e164d4 | 3 | .TH APROPOS 1 "" |
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4 | .AT 3 |
| 5 | .SH NAME | |
| 6 | apropos \- locate commands by keyword lookup | |
| 7 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 8 | .B apropos | |
| 9 | keyword ... | |
| 10 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 11 | .I Apropos | |
| 12 | shows which manual sections contain instances of any of the given | |
| 13 | keywords in their title. | |
| 14 | Each word is considered separately and case of letters is ignored. | |
| 79b1847e | 15 | Words which are part of other words are considered; thus, when looking for |
| 1bc32681 | 16 | compile, \fIapropos\fP will find all instances of `compiler' also. |
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17 | Try |
| 18 | .IP | |
| 19 | apropos password | |
| 20 | .PP | |
| 21 | and | |
| 22 | .IP | |
| 23 | apropos editor | |
| 24 | .PP | |
| 25 | If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do | |
| 26 | `man section name' to get the documentation for it. | |
| 27 | Try `apropos format' and then `man 3s printf' to get the manual | |
| 28 | on the subroutine | |
| 29 | .I printf. | |
| 30 | .PP | |
| 31 | .I Apropos | |
| 32 | is actually just the | |
| 33 | .B \-k | |
| 34 | option to the | |
| fba728cf | 35 | .IR man (1) |
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36 | command. |
| 37 | .SH FILES | |
| 38 | .DT | |
| 8fd02ef7 | 39 | /usr/man/whatis data base |
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40 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 41 | man(1), whatis(1), catman(8) | |
| 42 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 43 | William Joy |