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NAME
whatis - show description of word
SYNOPSIS
whatis
[
-l
] [
-P
path
] [
-s
section
]
word
...
DESCRIPTION
The
whatis
command displays a one line synopsis of each online
documentation file whose name matches the specified
word
. To
read the actual online documentation, use the
man
(1) command.
Word
is considered separately from each other word. The case of
letters is significant.
OPTIONS
The following switch options are recognized:
-l
a more verbose (long) output is given containing the one
line description plus a list of keywords, cross
references, and the primary manual page, if any.
-P
path
if a valid
path
is given,
whatis
searches for the
databases there (see ENVIRONMENT).
-s
section
search only for items from the specified
section
. This
should be a single character representing a section of
the manual, i.e., from the list:
0123456789lno
ENVIRONMENT
Whatis
searches for the database file in the directory contained
in the
MANPATH
environment variable. Note that the
-P
option
overrides this. If neither
MANPATH
or
-P
are specified, a
default path of ``d:/usr/man'' is used.
FILES
MANPATH/whatis._?_ online documentation database file
SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), whatisin(1), whereis(1)
AUTHOR
Bill Rosenkranz
rosenkra@convex.com
VERSION
whatis v2.0.1 92/9/12 rosenkra