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| [9] | 1 | .TH WHATIS 1
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | whatis, apropos \- give single line descriptions for manual pages
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | .B whatis
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| 6 | .RB [ \-a ]
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| 7 | .I title
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| 8 | .br
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| 9 | .B apropos
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| 10 | .I keyword
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| 11 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 12 | .B Whatis
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| 13 | lists the one line description from the
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| 14 | .BR whatis (5)
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| 15 | database describing the title given. It displays all the lines with
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| 16 | the title from the first whatis file that has those titles. It uses the
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| 17 | same search path as
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| 18 | .BR man (1).
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| 19 | .PP
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| 20 | .B Apropos
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| 21 | searches through all whatis files for the given keywords. It lists any
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| 22 | line that has the keyword anywhere on the line.
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| 23 | .SH OPTIONS
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| 24 | .TP
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| 25 | .B \-a
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| 26 | Search all whatis files.
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| 27 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 28 | .BR man (1),
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| 29 | .BR grep (1),
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| 30 | .BR whatis (5).
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| 31 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 32 | Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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