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



      NAME
           whatis - describe what a command is

      SYNOPSIS
           whatis command ...

      DESCRIPTION
           Whatis looks up a given command and gives the header line  from  the
           manual  section.   You  can  then run the man(1) command to get more
           information.  If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man
           section  name' to get the documentation for it.  Try `whatis ed' and
           then you should do `man 1 ed' to get the manual.

           Whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.

      FILES
           /usr/lib/whatis     Data base

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

      AUTHOR
           William Joy
































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