WHATIS(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHATIS(1)NAME
whatis — describe what a command is
SYNOPSIS
whatis command ...
DESCRIPTION
The whatis program queries the database /var/db/man.db for manual pages
with name command and prints the name of the manual page, the section and
the description from the section NAME.
SEE ALSOapropos(1), 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).
BSD February 1, 2012 BSD