apropos(1) 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)
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