apropos(1)              (BSD Compatibility Package)              apropos(1)


   NAME
         apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

   SYNOPSIS
         /usr/ucb/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 the case of letters is ignored.  Words which are part of other
         words are considered; thus, when looking for `compile', apropos will
         find all instances of `compiler' also.

         Try

               apropos password

         and

               apropos editor

         If the line starts `filename(section) ...'  you can do `man section
         filename' to get the documentation for it.  Try

               apropos format

         and then

               man 3s printf

         to get the manual page on the subroutine printf.

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

   FILES
         /usr/share/man/whatis     data base

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














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