whatis

 

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 User Commands                                           whatis(1)
 
 
 


NAME
      whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword
 


SYNOPSIS
      whatis command ...
 


DESCRIPTION
      whatis looks up a given command and displays the header line
      from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command
      to   get   more   information.   If    the    line    starts
      `name(section) ...'  you can do `man -s section name' to get
      the documentation for it.   Try  `whatis ed'  and  then  you
      should do `man -s 1 ed' to get the manual page for ed(1).
 
      whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.
 
      whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database.  This  data-
      base  is  created  by  catman(1M). If this database does not
      exist, whatis will fail.
 


FILES
      /usr/share/man/windex
            Table of contents and keyword database
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
      ____________________________________________________________
     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | Availability                | SUNWdoc                     |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | CSI                         | enabled                     |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
 
 


SEE ALSO
      apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8           Last change: 14 Sep 1992                    1
 
 
 

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