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APROPOS(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual APROPOS(1) NAME apropos, whatis -- search the whatis database SYNOPSIS apropos keyword ... whatis keyword ... DESCRIPTION apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard out- put. whatis displays only complete word matches. keyword really is an extended regular expression, please read grep(1) manual page for more information about its format. ENVIRONMENT PATH, MANPATH, MANLOCALES Used in finding the whatis database files. See manpath(1). PAGER Command used to page the output. The default is more -s. EXIT STATUS The apropos utility exits 0 on success, and 1 if no keyword matched. SEE ALSO grep(1), makewhatis(1), man(1) FreeBSD 6.1 January 15, 1991 FreeBSD 6.1
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