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Features of this new version in favor of the old one: BSD licensed -- old one is GPL. Imports configuration from /etc/man.conf and LOCALBASE/etc/man.d/*.conf allowing ports to extend the base functionality. The pluggable configuration can supplement the manual search path (retiring use.perl), add locales, and override language specific toolsets (attempt to merge the japanese/man port into the base system as much as possible). Much effort has been made to make this version mirror the functionality of the existing implementation. For 99% of users, it should be a drop in replacement. PR: gnu/143271, gnu/4419 Reviewed by: dougb (previous versions) Approved by: wes (mentor)
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Groff
89 lines
2.5 KiB
Groff
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.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Gordon Tetlow
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd September 1, 2010
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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 keyword search whatis documentation databases
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl d
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.Ar keyword ...
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.Nm whatis
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.Op Fl d
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.Ar keyword ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility searches a set of databases looking for documentation matching each
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.Ar keyword
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and displays the results.
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The
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.Nm whatis
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utility does the same search but only on complete words.
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.Bl -tag -width ".Fl d"
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.It Fl d
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Print extra debugging information.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Ar keyword
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is simply passed to
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.Xr grep 1
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allowing for extended regular expression matches.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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The following environment variables affect the execution of
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.Nm :
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.Bl -tag -width ".Ev PAGER"
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.It Ev MANLOCALES , MANPATH , PATH
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Used to find the location of the
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.Nm whatis
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database files. See
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.Xr manpath 1
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for additional information.
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.It Ev PAGER
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Program used to display files.
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If unset,
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.Ic "more -s"
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is used.
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.El
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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The
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.Nm
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utility exits 0 if a keyword matched and 1 if no keywords are matched or no
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.Nm whatis
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databases are found.
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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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.Xr manpath 1 ,
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.Xr man.conf 5
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