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.Nd locate commands by keyword lookup
shows which manual pages 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; when looking for
will also list all instances of
The options are as follows:
Override the list of standard directories
searches for a database named
separated list of directories.
This search path may also be set using the environment variable
Augment the list of standard directories
searches for its database.
separated list of directories.
These directories will be searched before the standard directories
or the directories supplied with the
environment variable are searched.
The standard search path used by
may be overridden by specifying a path in the
The format of the path is a colon
separated list of directories.
.Bl -tag -width whatis.db -compact
name of the apropos database