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.Dt APROPOS 1

.Os

.Sh NAME

.Nm apropos

.Nm apropos ,

.Nm whatis

.Nd search manual page databases

.Sh SYNOPSIS

.Nm

.Op Fl acfhklw

.Op Fl C Ar file

.Op Fl M Ar path

.Op Fl m Ar path

.Op Fl O Ar outkey

.Op Fl S Ar arch

.Op Fl s Ar section

.Ar expression ...

.Sh DESCRIPTION

The

.Nm

.Nm apropos

utility queries manual page databases generated by

and

.Xr mandocdb 8 ,

.Nm whatis

evaluating on

utilities query manual page databases generated by

.Xr makewhatis 8 ,

evaluating

.Ar expression

for each file in each database.

By default, they display the names, section numbers, and description lines

of all matching manuals.

.Pp

By default,

.Nm

searches for

.Xr mandocdb 8

.Xr makewhatis 8

databases in the default paths stipulated by

.Xr man 1 ,

.Xr man 1

parses terms as case-sensitive regular expressions

and uses case-insensitive substring matching

.Pq the Li \&~ operator

.Pq the Cm = No operator

over manual names and descriptions

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

Multiple terms imply pairwise

.Fl o .

.Pp

Its arguments are as follows:

.Nm whatis

is a synonym for

.Nm

.Fl f .

.Pp

The options are as follows:

.Bl -tag -width Ds

.It Fl a

Instead of showing only the title lines, show the complete manual pages,

just like

.Xr man 1

.Fl a

would.

If the standard output is a terminal device and

.Fl c

is not specified, use

.Xr more 1

to paginate them.

.Fl a

mode, the options

.Fl IKOTW

described in the

.Xr mandoc 1

manual are also available.

.It Fl C Ar file

Specify an alternative configuration

.Ar file

.Xr man.conf 5

format.

.It Fl c

.Fl a

mode, copy the formatted manual pages to the standard output without using

.Xr more 1

to paginate them.

.It Fl f

Search for all words in

.Ar expression

in manual page names only.

The search is case insensitive and matches whole words only.

In this mode, macro keys, comparison operators, and logical operators

are not available.

This overrides any earlier

.Fl k

and

.Fl l

options.

.It Fl h

Instead of showing the title lines, show the SYNOPSIS sections, just like

.Xr man 1

.Fl h

would.

.It Fl k

Support the full

.Ar expression

syntax.

This overrides any earlier

.Fl f

and

.Fl l

options.

It is the default for

.Nm .

.It Fl l

An alias for

.Xr mandoc 1

.Fl a .

This overrides any earlier

.Fl f ,

.Fl k ,

and

.Fl w

options.

.It Fl M Ar path

Use the colon-separated path instead of the default list of paths

searched for

.Xr mandocdb 8

.Xr makewhatis 8

databases.

Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are ignored.

.It Fl m Ar path

Prepend the colon-separated paths to the list of paths searched

for

.Xr mandocdb 8

.Xr makewhatis 8

databases.

Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are ignored.

.It Fl O Ar outkey

Show the values associated with the key

.Ar outkey

instead of the manual descriptions.

.It Fl S Ar arch

Restrict the search to pages for the specified

.Xr machine 1

Line 83 By default, pages from all sections are shown.

Line 162 By default, pages from all sections are shown.

See

.Xr man 1

for a listing of sections.

.It Fl w

Instead of showing title lines, show the pathnames of the matching

manual pages, just like

.Xr man 1

.Fl w

would.

.El

.Pp

Line 109 True if both

Line 194 True if both

and

.Ar expr2

are true (logical

.Qq and ) .

.Sq and ) .

.It Ar expr1 Oo Fl o Oc Ar expr2

True if

.Ar expr1

and/or

.Ar expr2

evaluate to true (logical

.Qq or ) .

.Sq or ) .

.It Ar term

True if

.Ar term

is satisfied.

This has syntax

.Li [key[,key]*(=~)]?val ,

.Sm off

where operand

.Oo

.Cm key

.Op Ar key Op , Ar key ...

.Pq Cm = | ~

.Oc

.Ar val ,

.Sm on

where

.Ar key

is an

.Xr mdoc 7

macro to query and

.Cm val

.Ar val

is its value.

See

.Sx Macro Keys

for a list of available keys.

Operator

.Li \&=

.Cm =

evaluates a substring, while

.Li \&~

.Cm ~

evaluates a regular expression.

.It Fl i Ar term

Line 146 is evaluated case-insensitively.

Line 237 is evaluated case-insensitively.

Has no effect on substring terms.

.El

.Pp

Results are sorted by manual title, with output formatted as

Results are sorted by manual sections and names, with output formatted as

.Pp

.D1 title(sec) \- description

.D1 name[, name...](sec) \- description

.Pp

Where

.Qq title

.Dq name

is the manual's title (note multiple manual names may exist for one

is the manual's name,

title),

.Dq sec

.Qq sec

is the manual section, and

.Qq description

.Dq description

is the manual's short description.

If an architecture is specified for the manual, it is displayed as

.Pp

.D1 title(cat/arch) \- description

.D1 name(sec/arch) \- description

.Pp

Resulting manuals may be accessed as

.Pp

.Dl $ man \-s sec title

.Dl $ man \-s sec name

.Pp

If an architecture is specified in the output, use

.Pp

.Dl $ man \-s sec \-S arch title

.Dl $ man \-s sec \-S arch name

.Ss Macro Keys

Queries evaluate over a subset of

.Xr mdoc 7

macros indexed by

.Xr mandocdb 8 .

.Xr makewhatis 8 .

In addition to the macro keys listed below, the special key

.Cm any

may be used to match any available macro key.

Line 182 Names and description:

Line 272 Names and description:

.Bl -column "xLix" description -offset indent -compact

.It Li \&Nm Ta manual name

.It Li \&Nd Ta one-line manual description

.It Li arch Ta machine architecture (case-insensitive)

.It Li sec Ta manual section number

.El

.Pp

Sections and cross references:

Line 245 Text production:

Line 337 Text production:

.It Li \&Dx Ta Dx No version reference

.El

.Sh ENVIRONMENT

.Bl -tag -width MANPATH

.Bl -tag -width MANPAGER

.It Ev MANPAGER

Any non-empty value of the environment variable

.Ev MANPAGER

will be used instead of the standard pagination program,

.Xr more 1 .

.It Ev MANPATH

The standard search path used by

.Xr man 1

Line 263 or if it contains two adjacent colons,

Line 360 or if it contains two adjacent colons,

the standard search path is inserted between the colons.

If none of these conditions are met, it overrides the

standard search path.

.It Ev PAGER

Specifies the pagination program to use when

.Ev MANPAGER

is not defined.

If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined,

.Pa /usr/bin/more Fl s

will be used.

.El

.Sh FILES

.Bl -tag -width "/etc/man.conf" -compact

.It Pa mandoc.db

name of the

.Xr mandocdb 8

.Xr makewhatis 8

keyword database

.It Pa mandoc.index

name of the

.Xr mandocdb 8

filename database

.It Pa /etc/man.conf

default

.Xr man 1

Line 300 Search in names and descriptions using a regular expre

Line 400 Search in names and descriptions using a regular expre

.Pp

.Dl $ apropos '~set.?[ug]id'

.Pp

Search for manuals in the library category mentioning both the

Search for manuals in the library section mentioning both the

.Qq optind

and the

.Qq optarg

Line 314 with the argument

Line 414 with the argument

.Qq ssh :

.Pp

.Dl $ apropos \-\- \-i 'Nm~[[:<:]]ssh[[:>:]]'

.Pp

The following two invocations are equivalent:

.Pp

.D1 Li $ apropos -S Ar arch Li -s Ar section expression

.Bd -ragged -offset indent

.Li $ apropos \e( Ar expression Li \e)

.Li -a arch~^( Ns Ar arch Ns Li |any)$

.Li -a sec~^ Ns Ar section Ns Li $

.Ed

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr man 1 ,

.Xr re_format 7 ,

.Xr mandocdb 8

.Xr makewhatis 8

.Sh HISTORY

Part of the functionality of

.Nm whatis

was already provided by the former

.Nm manwhere

utility in

.Bx 1 .

The

.Nm

utility first appeared in

and

.Nm whatis

utilities first appeared in

.Bx 2 .

It was rewritten from scratch for

They were rewritten from scratch for

.Ox 5.1 .

.Ox 5.6 .

.Pp

The

.Fl M

Line 343 and

Line 460 and

and

.Fl s

.Ox 4.5 .

.Ox 4.5

for

.Nm

and in

.Ox 5.6

for

.Nm whatis .

.Sh AUTHORS

.An -nosplit

.An Bill Joy

wrote the original

wrote

.Nm manwhere

in 1977 and the original

.Bx

.Nm

and

.Nm whatis

in February 1979.

The current version was written by

.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .

.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv

and

.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .

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