APROPOS(1)              GENIX Programmer's Manual              APROPOS(1)



      NAME
           apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

      SYNOPSIS
           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 case of letters is ignored.  Words which are part of other words
           are  considered  thus  looking for compile will hit all instances of
           `compiler' also.  Try

                apropos password

           and

                apropos editor

           If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man section name'
           to get the documentation for it.  Try `apropos format' and then `man
           3s printf' to get the manual on the subroutine printf.

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

      FILES
           /usr/lib/whatis          data base

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

      AUTHOR
           William Joy






















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