| 1 | .\" Man page for whatis |
| 2 | .\" |
| 3 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, John W. Eaton. |
| 4 | .\" |
| 5 | .\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public |
| 6 | .\" License as specified in the README file that comes with the man 1.0 |
| 7 | .\" distribution. |
| 8 | .\" |
| 9 | .\" John W. Eaton |
| 10 | .\" jwe@che.utexas.edu |
| 11 | .\" Department of Chemical Engineering |
| 12 | .\" The University of Texas at Austin |
| 13 | .\" Austin, Texas 78712 |
| 14 | .\" |
| 15 | .TH whatis 1 "Jan 5, 1991" |
| 16 | .LO 1 |
| 17 | .SH NAME |
| 18 | whatis \- search the whatis database for complete words. |
| 19 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 20 | .BI whatis |
| 21 | keyword ... |
| 22 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 23 | whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions |
| 24 | of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the |
| 25 | standard output. Only complete word matches are displayed. |
| 26 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 27 | apropos(1), man(1). |