WHATIS(1) | General Commands Manual | WHATIS(1) |
whatis
— describe
what a command is
whatis |
[-C path]
command ... |
The whatis
program queries the apropos
database built by
makemandb(8). It searches
for manual pages with name command and outputs name of
the matching manual pages along with the section and the brief description
from the NAME section.
It supports the following options:
_mandb
tag.The whatis
command appeared in 3.0BSD. It
was rewritten in NetBSD 6.0 to use the SQLite index
created by
makemandb(8).
June 16, 2016 | NetBSD 10.99 |