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whatis(1)							     whatis(1)

NAME
       whatis - search the whatis database for complete words.

SYNOPSIS
       whatis keyword ...

DESCRIPTION
       whatis  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/libexec/make‐
       whatis.

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 ALSO
       apropos(1), man(1).

			      September 19, 2005		     whatis(1)
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