apropos
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 19, 2005
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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).