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Line 37 The

and

.Nm whatis

utilities query manual page databases generated by

.Xr mandocdb 8 ,

.Xr makewhatis 8 ,

evaluating

.Ar expression

for each file in each database.

By default, it displays the names, section numbers, and description lines

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

and uses case-insensitive substring matching

Line 70 format.

.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

Line 140 This has syntax

.Op Ar key Op , Ar key ...

.Pq Cm = | ~

.Oc

.Ar val

.Ar val ,

.Sm on ,

.Sm on

where

.Ar key

is an

Line 196 If an architecture is specified in the output, use

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 293 standard search path.

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

.It Pa mandoc.db

name of the

.Xr mandocdb 8

.Xr makewhatis 8

keyword database

.It Pa /etc/man.conf

default

Line 347 The following two invocations are equivalent:

.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 5.6 .

.Pp

The

Line 373 and

Line 381 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

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