.TH APROPOS 1 "24 February 1979"
apropos \- locate commands by keyword lookup
shows which manual sections contain instances of any of the given
Each word is considered separately and case of letters is ignored.
Words which are part of other words are considered thus looking for
compile will hit all instances of `compiler' also.
If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do
`man section name' to get the documentation for it.
Try `apropos format' and then `man 3s printf' to get the manual
/usr/lib/whatis data base
man(1), whatis(1), catman(8)