NAME

apropos − locate commands by keyword lookup

SYNOPSIS

apropos keyword ...

DESCRIPTION

Apropos shows which manual sections contain instances of any of the given keywords in their title.  Apropos considers each word separately and ignores the case of letters.  Apropos also considers words that are part of other words:  when looking for compile, apropos will find all instances of ‘compiler’ also.  (Try "apropos password" and "apropos editor" to see how apropos does this.) 

If the line starts ‘name(section) ...’ you can do ‘man section name’ to get the documentation for it.  Try ‘apropos format’ and then ‘man 3s printf’ to get the manual on the subroutine printf. 

Apropos is actually just the −k option to the man(1) command. 

FILES

/usr/man/whatisdata base

SEE ALSO

man(1), whatis(1), catman(8)
 

INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 4.3 BSD  —  June 5, 1986