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apropos
— search
the complete content of all man pages
apropos |
[-123456789hilMmPpr ] [-C
path] [-n
results] [-S
machine] [-s
section] query |
The apropos
utility performs a full text
search over the complete content of all man pages. It uses the FTS engine of
SQLite to perform the search. The database is created with the help of the
makemandb(8) utility.
This implementation of the apropos
utility
is more sophisticated than the classical version. Like modern search
applications, it uses advanced techniques like stemming and term weighting
to rank the matching results in decreasing order of relevance.
Quotes are optional for specifying multiword queries.
It supports the following options:
-1
,
..., -9
-s
option for single digit sections.-C
path-h
-i
-l
-M
-m
-n
results-P
-p
-r
-S
machine-s
section-1
, ...,
-9
._mandb
tag.APROPOS
PAGER
PAGER
environment variable is
null or not set, the standard pagination program
more(1) will be used.The apropos
command appeared in
3BSD. It was rewritten in NetBSD
6.0 to support full text search using SQLite.
Abhinav Upadhyay
May 17, 2022 | NetBSD 10.99 |