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Groff
48 lines
1.0 KiB
Groff
.\" 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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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd January 15, 1991
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.Dt APROPOS 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm apropos ,
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.Nm whatis
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.Nd search the whatis database
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm apropos
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.Ar keyword ...
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.Nm whatis
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.Ar keyword ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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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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.Nm whatis
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displays only complete word matches.
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.Pp
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.Ar keyword
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really is an extended regular expression, please read
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.Xr grep 1
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manual page for more information about its format.
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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The
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.Nm
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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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.Xr grep 1 ,
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.Xr makewhatis 1 ,
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.Xr man 1
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