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apropos(1)
locate commands by keyword lookup
From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.
NAME
apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup
SYNOPSIS
apropos keyword...
DESCRIPTION
apropos shows which manual sections contain instances of the given keyword in their title. Case is ignored. Words which are part of other words are considered; thus, when looking for `compile', apropos will find instances of `compiler' also. If the line starts `filename(section) ...' you can do `man section filename' to get the manual page for that command. apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command.
FILES
/usr/share/man/whatis data base
SEE ALSO
man(1), whatis(1), catman(1M).