apropos(1)                     DG/UX R4.11MU05                    apropos(1)


NAME
       apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

SYNOPSIS
       apropos keyword ...

   where:
       keyword   A word for which to search, from the NAME section of an
                 entry

DESCRIPTION
       apropos shows which man page entries contain instances of any of the
       given keywords in their titles.  The NAME line of each matching entry
       is printed to the standard output.  Each word is considered
       separately and the case of letters is ignored.  Words which are part
       of other words are considered; thus, when looking for ``compile'',
       apropos will find all instances of ``compiler'' also.

       If an apropos output line starts with filename(section[x]), where
       section is a digit and x is a lowercase letter, you can enter the
       following command to get the documentation for it:

              man section filename

EXAMPLES
       To display the title lines of all manual entries related to
       passwords:

       apropos password

       To find out what editors are available on the DG/UX System:

       apropos editor

       To locate and then display an entry discussing formatted printing
       subroutines:

       apropos formatted

            and then

       man 3 printf

FILES
       /usr/catman/?_man/whatis  Table of contents data bases

SEE ALSO
       man(1), whatis(1).

NOTES
       apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command.


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