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User Commandswhatis(1)


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)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 14 Sep 1992

 
      
      
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