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   6 .TH WHATIS 1 "Sep 14, 1992"
   7 .SH NAME
   8 whatis \- display a one-line summary about a keyword
   9 .SH SYNOPSIS
  10 .LP
  11 .nf
  12 \fBwhatis\fR \fIcommand\fR...
  13 .fi
  14 
  15 .SH DESCRIPTION
  16 .sp
  17 .LP
  18 \fBwhatis\fR looks up a given \fIcommand\fR and displays the header line from
  19 the manual section. You can then run the \fBman\fR(1) command to get more
  20 information. If the line starts \fBname(\fIsection\fR)\fR.\|.\|. you can do
  21 \fBman\fR \fB-s\fR\fB\fIsection\fR name\fR to get the documentation for it.
  22 Try \fBwhatis ed\fR and then you should do \fBman\fR \fB-s\fR \fB1 ed\fR to get
  23 the manual page for \fBed\fR(1).
  24 .sp
  25 .LP
  26 \fBwhatis\fR is actually just the \fB-f\fR option to the \fBman\fR(1) command.
  27 .sp
  28 .LP
  29 \fBwhatis\fR uses the \fB/usr/share/man/windex\fR database.  This database is
  30 created by \fBcatman\fR(1M). If this database does not exist, \fBwhatis\fR will
  31 fail.
  32 .SH FILES
  33 .sp
  34 .ne 2
  35 .na
  36 \fB\fB/usr/share/man/windex\fR\fR
  37 .ad
  38 .RS 25n
  39 Table of contents and keyword database
  40 .RE
  41 
  42 .SH ATTRIBUTES
  43 .sp
  44 .LP
  45 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
  46 .sp
  47 
  48 .sp
  49 .TS
  50 box;
  51 c | c
  52 l | l .
  53 ATTRIBUTE TYPE  ATTRIBUTE VALUE
  54 _
  55 CSI     Enabled
  56 .TE
  57 
  58 .SH SEE ALSO
  59 .sp
  60 .LP
  61 \fBapropos\fR(1), \fBman\fR(1), \fBcatman\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5)