


      WHATIS(1)                   (bsd 4.2)                   WHATIS(1)



      NAME
           whatis - describe what a command is

      SYNTAX
           whatis command ...

      DESCRIPTION
           Whatis looks up a given command and gives the header line
           from the manual section.  You can then run the man(1)
           command to get more information.  If the line starts
           `name(section) ...' you can do `man section name' to get the
           documentation for it.  Try `whatis ed' and then you should
           do `man 1 ed' to get the manual.

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

      FILES
           /usr/lib/whatis     Data base

      SEE ALSO
           man(1)


































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