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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 The apropos utility searches a set of database files containing short de- scriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output. The whatis utility displays only complete word matches. The keyword really is an extended regular expression, please read grep(1) manual page for more information about its format. ENVIRONMENT PATH, MANPATH, MANLOCALES Used in finding the whatis database files. See manpath(1). PAGER Command used to page the output. The default is more -s. EXIT STATUS 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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