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NAME
     whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/ucb/whatis command...

DESCRIPTION
     whatis looks up a given command and displays the header line
     from  the  manual section.  You can then run the man(1) com-
     mand  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 page for ed(1).
     whatis is actually just the -f option to the man command.

FILES
     /usr/share/man/whatis         data base
     /usr/share/man/X11/whatis     data base for X

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


































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