whatis(1)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO

NAME

whatis– display a one-line summary about a keyword

SYNOPSIS

whatis command…

DESCRIPTION

whatis looks up a given command and displays the header line from the manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more information. If the line starts `name(section) . . .' you can do `man -s section name' to get the documentation for it. Try `whatis ed' and then you should do `man -s 1 ed' to get the manual page for ed(1).

whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.

whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database. This database is created by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail.

FILES

/usr/share/man/windex

Table of contents and keyword database

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWdoc
CSI	enabled

SEE ALSO

apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.8  Last Revised 14 Sep 1992

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO