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)