| 1 | .TH WHATIS UCB 2/24/79 UCB |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | whatis \- describe what a command is |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .B whatis |
| 6 | name ... |
| 7 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 8 | .I Whatis |
| 9 | looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual |
| 10 | section. |
| 11 | You can then run the |
| 12 | .IR man (UCB) |
| 13 | command to get more information. |
| 14 | If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do |
| 15 | `man section name' to get the documentation for it. |
| 16 | Try `whatis ed' and then you should do `man I ed' to get the manual. |
| 17 | .SH FILES |
| 18 | .DT |
| 19 | /usr/lib/whatis Data base |
| 20 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 21 | apropos(UCB), makewhatis(UCB) |
| 22 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 23 | Bill Joy |