The Whatis
program looks up a given command and gives the
header line from the manual page. You can then use the man
command to get more information.
Whatis
uses a database file `whatis.db', which is
normally located in `/GG/etc/'.
whatis
optionsThe options are as follows:
man
searches
for manual pages. The supplied path must be a colon `:' separated
list of directories. This search path may also be set using the
environment variable `MANPATH'. The subdirectories to be searched,
and their search order, is specified by the `_subdir' line in the
man
configuration file.
man
searches
for manual pages. The supplied path must be a colon `:' separated
list of directories. These directories will be searched before the
standard directories or the directories specified using the `-M'
option or the `MANPATH' environment variable. The subdirectories
to be searched, and their search order, is specified by the `_subdir'
line in the man
configuration file.
whatis
invocationSynopsis:
whatis [OPTIONS]... [KEYWORD]...
whatis gcc
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