apropos(1)                                             apropos(1)



     NAME
          apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

     SYNOPSIS
          apropos keyword ...

     DESCRIPTION
          apropos shows which manual sections contain instances of any
          of the given keywords in their title.  Each word is
          considered separately and case of letters is ignored.  Words
          which are part of other words are considered; thus, looking
          for ``compile'' will hit all instances of ``compiler'' also.
          Try

               apropos password

          and

               apropos editor

          If the line starts ``name(section) ...'' you can do ``man
          section name'' to get the documentation for it.  Try
          `apropos format' and then `man 3s printf' to get the manual
          on the subroutine printf.

          apropos is actually just the -k flag option to the man(1)
          command.

     FILES
          /usr/ucb/apropos
          /usr/lib/whatis          data base

     SEE ALSO
          man(1), whatis(1), catman(1M).





















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