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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 con-
     sidered 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
     /usr/share/man/X11/whatis data base for X

SEE ALSO
     man(1), whatis(1), catman(1M).























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