NAME

apropos − locate commands by keyword lookup

SYNOPSIS

apropos keyword ... 

DESCRIPTION

Apropos specifies which manual sections contain any of the given keywords in their title.  Each word is considered separately and any case of letters is ignored.  Words which are the root of other phrases are also considered; therefore, searching for compile obtains all instances of ‘compiler’ also.  Enter

apropos password

and

apropos editor

If the line starts ‘name(section) ...’ enter ‘man section name’ can be entered to obtain the appropriate documentation.  Enter ‘apropos format’ and then ‘man 3s printf’ to obtain the manual on the subroutine printf. 

Apropos is actually the −k option to the man(2) command.

FILES

/usr/lib/whatisdata base

SEE ALSO

man(1), whatis(1), catman(8)

AUTHOR

William Joy

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  @(#)apropos.11.1%Q%%Y%