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NAME
apropos
- locate commands by keyword lookup
SYNOPSIS
apropos
[-M path
]
[-m path
]
keyword ...
DESCRIPTION
Apropos
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.
The options are as follows:
- -M
-
Override the list of standard directories
apropos
searches for a database named
whatis.db
The supplied
path
must be a colon
``:''
separated list of directories.
This search path may also be set using the environment variable
MANPATH
- -m
-
Augment the list of standard directories
apropos
searches for its database.
The supplied
path
must be a colon
``:''
separated list of directories.
These directories will be searched before the standard directories
or the directories supplied with the
-M
option or the
MANPATH
environment variable are searched.
ENVIRONMENT
- MANPATH
-
The standard search path used by
man(1)
may be overridden by specifying a path in the
MANPATH
environment variable.
The format of the path is a colon
``:''
separated list of directories.
FILES
- whatis.db
-
name of the apropos database
SEE ALSO
man(1),
whatis(1),
whereis(1)
HISTORY
The
apropos
command appeared in
BSD 3.0
Index
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