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37 lines
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.\" Man page for apropos an whatis
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, John W. Eaton.
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.\"
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.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
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.\" License as specified in the README file that comes with the man 1.0
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.\" distribution.
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.\"
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.\" John W. Eaton
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.\" jwe@che.utexas.edu
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.\" Department of Chemical Engineering
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.\" The University of Texas at Austin
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.\" Austin, Texas 78712
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.\"
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.TH apropos 1 "Jan 15, 1991"
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.LO 1
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.SH NAME
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apropos, whatis \- search the whatis database
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BI apropos
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keyword ...
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.BI whatis
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keyword ...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B apropos
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searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
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of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the
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standard output.
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.B whatis
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display only complete word matches.
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The
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.B apropos
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utility exits 0 on success, and 1 if no keyword matched.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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man(1), makewhatis(1).
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