apropos(1)         UNIX System V(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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