whatis(1)whatis(1)NAMEwhatis - search the whatis database for complete words.
SYNOPSISwhatis keyword ...
DESCRIPTIONwhatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
output. Only complete word matches are displayed.
The whatis database is created using the command /usr/sbin/makewhatis.
AUTHOR
John W. Eaton was the original author of man. Zeyd M. Ben-Halim
released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3
thru 1.5p. Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current
maintainer.
SEE ALSOapropos(1), man(1).
September 19, 2005 whatis(1)