The apropos
program shows which manual pages contain
instances of any of the given keyword(s) in their title line.
Each word is considered separately and case of letters is ignored.
Words which are part of other words are considered; when looking for
`compile' , apropos
will also list all instances of
`compiler'.
If the line output by apropos
starts `name(section) ...'
you can enter man section name
to get its documentation.
Apropos
uses a database file `whatis.db', which is
normally located in `/GG/etc/'.
apropos
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.
apropos
invocationSynopsis:
apropos [OPTIONS]... [KEYWORD]...
apropos chown
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