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Command: whatis | Section: 1 | Source: NetBSD | File: whatis.1
WHATIS(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual WHATIS(1)
NAME
whatis - describe what a command is
SYNOPSIS
whatis [-C path] command ...
DESCRIPTION
The whatis program queries the apropos database built by makemandb(8).
It searches for manual pages with name command and outputs name of the
matching manual pages along with the section and the brief description
from the NAME section.
It supports the following options:
-C path
Use different man(1) configuration file than the default,
/etc/man.conf.
FILES
/etc/man.conf The location of the SQLite FTS database can be configured
using the _mandb tag.
SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), man.conf(5), 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).
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 June 16, 2016 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8