NAME
whatis —
describe what a command is
SYNOPSIS
whatis |
[-C path]
command ... |
DESCRIPTION
Thewhatis 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:
-Cpath- 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
_mandbtag.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The whatis command appeared in 3.0BSD. It
was rewritten in NetBSD 6.0 to use the SQLite index
created by
makemandb(8).