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APROPOS(1)          UNIX Programmer's Manual           APROPOS(1)



N\bNA\bAM\bME\bE
    apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

S\bSY\bYN\bNO\bOP\bPS\bSI\bIS\bS
    a\bap\bpr\bro\bop\bpo\bos\bs [ -\b-M\bM _\bp_\ba_\bt_\bh ] keyword ...

D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
    _\bA_\bp_\br_\bo_\bp_\bo_\bs shows which manual pages contain instances of any of
    the given _\bk_\be_\by_\bw_\bo_\br_\bd(s) in their title line.    Each word is con-
    sidered separately and case of letters is ignored.  Words
    which are part of other words are considered; when looking
    for compile, _\ba_\bp_\br_\bo_\bp_\bo_\bs will also find all instances of ``com-
    piler''.

    If the line output by _\ba_\bp_\br_\bo_\bp_\bo_\bs starts ``name(section) ...''
    you can enter ``man section name'' to get its documentation.

    Normally _\ba_\bp_\br_\bo_\bp_\bo_\bs checks in a standard location (/usr/man)
    for its database ``whatis''.  This can be changed by supply-
    ing a _\bp_\ba_\bt_\bh (a la the Bourne shell) with the -\b-M\bM flag.  This
    search path must be a colon (``:'') separated list of direc-
    tories which _\ba_\bp_\br_\bo_\bp_\bo_\bs will search for files named ``whatis''.
    The path can also be set with the environmental variable
    _\bM_\bA_\bN_\bP_\bA_\bT_\bH.

F\bFI\bIL\bLE\bES\bS
    /usr/man/whatis          data base

S\bSE\bEE\bE A\bAL\bLS\bSO\bO
    man(1), whatis(1)

























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