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APROPOS(1) BSD General Commands Manual APROPOS(1) NAME apropos, whatis -- search the whatis database SYNOPSIS apropos keyword ... whatis keyword ... DESCRIPTION apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard out- put. whatis displays only complete word matches. keyword really is an extended regular expression, please read grep(1) manual page for more information about its format. DIAGNOSTICS The apropos utility exits 0 on success, and 1 if no keyword matched. SEE ALSO grep(1), makewhatis(1), man(1) BSD January 15, 1991 BSD
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