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


NAME

     whatis -- describe what a command is


SYNOPSIS

     whatis [-C path] command ...


DESCRIPTION

     The whatis program queries the apropos database built by makemandb(8).
     It searches for manual pages with name command and outputs name of the
     matching manual pages along with the section and the brief description
     from the NAME section.

     It supports the following options:

     -C path
             Use different man(1) configuration file than the default,
             /etc/man.conf.


FILES

     /etc/man.conf  The location of the Sqlite FTS database can be configured
                    using the _mandb tag.


SEE ALSO

     apropos(1), man(1), man.conf(5), 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 8.3                       June 16, 2016                      NetBSD 8.3