


      APROPOS(1)                  (bsd 4.2)                  APROPOS(1)



      NAME
           apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

      SYNTAX
           apropos keyword ...

      DESCRIPTION
           Apropos shows which manual sections contain instances of any
           of the given keywords in their title.  Each word is
           considered separately and case of letters is ignored.  Words
           which are part of other words are considered thus looking
           for compile will hit all instances of `compiler' also.  Try

                apropos password

           and

                apropos editor

           If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man
           section name' to get the documentation for it.  Try `apropos
           format' and then `man 3s printf' to get the manual on the
           subroutine printf.

           Apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1)
           command.

      FILES
           /usr/lib/whatis          data base

      SEE ALSO
           man(1), whatis(1)























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