NAME

whatis − describe what a command is

SYNOPSIS

whatis name ... 

DESCRIPTION

Whatis looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual section.  You can then run the man(UCB) 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 I ed’ to get the manual.

FILES

/usr/lib/whatisData base

SEE ALSO

apropos(UCB), makewhatis(UCB)

AUTHOR

Bill Joy

7th Edition  —  2/24/79