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apropos
—
apropos |
[-123456789hilMmPpr ] [-C
path] [-n
results] [-S
machine] [-s
section] query |
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.apropos
command appeared in
3BSD. It was rewritten in NetBSD
6.0 to support full text search using SQLite.
May 17, 2022 | NetBSD 9.4 |