apropos(1)                                             apropos(1)



     NAME
          apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

     SYNOPSIS
          apropos keyword...

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

     EXAMPLES
          Try running the following two commands.

             apropos password
             apropos editor

          If a resulting output line starts with a string of the form
          name(section), then you can run the command

             man section name

          to get the on-line documentation for it.  For instance, try

             apropos format

          and then

             man 3s printf

          to get the manual on the subroutine printf.

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

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














     April, 1990                                                     1