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whatis

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 14 Sep 1992
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NAME

whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword  

SYNOPSIS

whatis command...  

DESCRIPTION

whatis looks up a given command and displays the header line from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more information. If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man -s section name' to get the documentation for it. Try `whatis ed' and then you should do `man -s 1 ed' to get the manual page for ed(1).

whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.

whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database. This database is created by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail.  

FILES

/usr/share/man/windex Table of contents and keyword database

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWdoc
CSIenabled

 

SEE ALSO

apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO

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