Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man whatis

User Commands                                           whatis(1)



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

SYNOPSIS
     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) command
     to get more information. If the line starts name(section)...
     you  can  do man -ssection name to get the documentation for
     it.  Try whatis ed and then you should do man -s 1 ed to get
     the manual page for ed(1).


     whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.


     whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database.  This  data-
     base  is  created  by  catman(1M). If this database does not
     exist, whatis will fail.

FILES
     /usr/share/man/windex    Table of contents and keyword data-
                              base


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



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    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | text/doctools               |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | CSI                         | Enabled                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)










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