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version 1.16.2.4, 2014/03/17 09:52:42

version 1.23, 2014/03/17 09:43:56

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.Dt APROPOS 1

.Os

.Sh NAME

.Nm apropos

.Nm apropos ,

.Nm whatis

.Nd search manual page databases

.Sh SYNOPSIS

.Nm

Line 30

Line 31

.Ar expression ...

.Sh DESCRIPTION

The

.Nm

.Nm apropos

utility queries manual page databases generated by

and

.Nm whatis

utilities query manual page databases generated by

.Xr mandocdb 8 ,

evaluating on

.Ar expression

Line 49 over manual names and descriptions

Line 52 over manual names and descriptions

.Pq the Li \&Nm No and Li \&Nd No macro keys .

Multiple terms imply pairwise

.Fl o .

.Nm whatis

maps terms only to case-sensitive manual names.

.Pp

Its arguments are as follows:

.Bl -tag -width Ds

Line 146 is evaluated case-insensitively.

Line 151 is evaluated case-insensitively.

Has no effect on substring terms.

.El

.Pp

.Nm whatis

considers an

.Ar expression

to consist of an opaque keyword.

.Pp

Results are sorted by manual title, with output formatted as

.Pp

.D1 title(sec) \- description

Line 270 standard search path.

Line 280 standard search path.

name of the

.Xr mandocdb 8

keyword database

.It Pa mandoc.index

name of the

.Xr mandocdb 8

filename database

.It Pa /etc/man.conf

default

.Xr man 1

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