NAME
whatis —
describe what a command
is
SYNOPSIS
whatis |
[-C
path] command
... |
DESCRIPTION
The
whatis program queries the apropos database built by
makemandb(8). It searches for
manual pages with name
command and outputs name of the
matching manual pages along with the section and the brief description from
the NAME section.
It supports the following options:
-
-
- -C
path
- Use different
man(1) configuration file than
the default, /etc/man.conf.
FILES
- /etc/man.conf
- The location of the Sqlite
FTS database can be configured using the _mandb
tag.
SEE ALSO
apropos(1),
man(1),
man.conf(5),
makemandb(8)
HISTORY
The
whatis command appeared in 3.0BSD. It was rewritten in
NetBSD 6.0 to use the SQLite index created by
makemandb(8).