whatis man page on SmartOS

whatis man page on SmartOS

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WHATIS(1)							     WHATIS(1)

NAME
       whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword

SYNOPSIS
       whatis command...

DESCRIPTION
       whatis  looks  up a given command and displays the header line from the
       manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more	infor‐
       mation.	If  the	 line starts name(section)... you can do man -ssection
       name to get the documentation for it.   Try  whatis  ed	and  then  you
       should do man -s 1 ed to get the manual page for ed(1).

       whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.

       whatis  uses the /usr/share/man/windex database.	 This database is cre‐
       ated by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail.

FILES
       /usr/share/man/windex
				Table of contents and keyword database

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌───────────────┬─────────────────┐
       │ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
       ├───────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │CSI	       │ Enabled	 │
       └───────────────┴─────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)

				 Sep 14, 1992			     WHATIS(1)

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