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Name

Synopsis

Availability

SUNWdoc

Description

apropos displays the man page name, section number, and a short description for each man page whose NAME line contains keyword. This information is contained in the /usr/share/man/windex database created by catman(1M) . If catman(1M) was not run, or was run with the -n option, apropos fails. Each word is considered separately and the case of letters is ignored. Words which are part of other words are considered; for example, when looking for ‘compile’, apropos finds all instances of ‘compiler’ also.

apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command.

Try

example% apropos password

and

example% apropos editor

If the line starts ‘filename(section) ...’ you can do ‘man -s section filename’ to display the man page for filename. Try

example% apropos format

and then

example% man -s 3s printf

to get the manual page on the subroutine printf().

Files

/usr/share/man/windex

table of contents and keyword database

See Also

Diagnostics

/usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory

This database does not exist. catman(1M) must be run to create it.

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