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WHATIS(1)               NetBSD General Commands Manual               WHATIS(1)


NAME

     whatis -- describe what a command is


SYNOPSIS

     whatis command ...


DESCRIPTION

     The whatis program queries the database /var/db/man.db for manual pages
     with name command and prints the name of the manual page, the section and
     the description from the section NAME.


SEE ALSO

     apropos(1), makemandb(8)


HISTORY

     The whatis command appeared in 3.0BSD.  It was rewritten in NetBSD 6.0 to
     use the SQLite index created by makemandb(8).

NetBSD 6.1.2                   February 1, 2012                   NetBSD 6.1.2