APROPOS(1-BSD)      RISC/os Reference Manual       APROPOS(1-BSD)



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 con-
     sidered separately and 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 `name(section) ...' you can do `man sec-
     tion 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(1) com-
     mand.

FILES
     /usr/man/whatis      data base

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

AUTHOR
     William Joy

ERRORS
     apropos may return references to manual pages that are part
     of optional software packages not installed on your system.















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