usr/man/man1/whatis.1

.TH WHATIS 1 2/24/79
.UC
.SH NAME
whatis \- describe what a command is
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B whatis
name ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Whatis
looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual
section.
You can then run the
.IR man (1)
command to get more information.
If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do
`man section name' to get the documentation for it.
Try `whatis ed' and then you should do `man I ed' to get the manual.
.SH FILES
.DT
/usr/lib/whatis Data base
.SH "SEE ALSO"
apropos(1), makewhatis(1m)
.SH AUTHOR
William Joy