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WHATIS(1) |
General Commands Manual |
WHATIS(1) |
NAME
whatis — describe what a command is
DESCRIPTION
The
whatis program queries the apropos database built by
makemandb(8). It searches for manual pages with name
command and outputs name of the matching manual pages along with the section and the brief description from the NAME section.
FILES
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/etc/man.conf
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The location of the Sqlite FTS database can be configured using the _mandb tag.
HISTORY
The
whatis command appeared in 3.0BSD. It was rewritten in
NetBSD 6.0 to use the SQLite index created by
makemandb(8).
