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. 

If the DDI/DKI manual page package is installed, the subsection letter d is used for manual pages in the DDI/DKI package.  On the displayed manual page, the subsection will be DXDK, where X is a number between 1 and 5. 

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

FILES

/usr/share/man/whatis data base

/usr/share/ddi_man/whatis DDI/DKI data base (if installed)

SEE ALSO

man(1), whatis(1), catman(1M)

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