apropos

apropos(1)                   General Commands Manual                  apropos(1)



NAME
       apropos - search the whatis database for strings

SYNOPSIS
       apropos keyword ...

DESCRIPTION
       apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of
       system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
       output.

AUTHOR
       John W. Eaton was the original author of man.  Zeyd M. Ben-Halim released
       man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3 thru 1.5p.
       Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer.

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



                               September 19, 2005                     apropos(1)