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The apropos utility displays the man page name, section number, and a short description for each man page whose NAME line contains keyword. This information is contained in the /usr/share/man/windex database created by catman(1M). If catman(1M) was not run, or was run with the -n option, apropos fails. Each word is considered separately and the case of letters is ignored. Words which are part of other words are considered; for example, when looking for `compile', apropos finds all instances of `compiler' also.
apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command.
Try
example% apropos password |
and
example% apropos editor |
If the line starts `filename(section) . . .' you can run
man -s section filename |
Try
example% apropos format |
and then
example% man -s 3s printf |
to get the manual page on the subroutine printf().
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
---|---|
Availability | SUNWdoc |
CSI | Enabled |
This database does not exist. catman(1M) must be run to create it.
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | DIAGNOSTICS