.TH WHATIS 1 .SH NAME whatis, apropos \- give single line descriptions for manual pages .SH SYNOPSIS .B whatis .RB [ \-a ] .I title .br .B apropos .I keyword .SH DESCRIPTION .B Whatis lists the one line description from the .BR whatis (5) database describing the title given. It displays all the lines with the title from the first whatis file that has those titles. It uses the same search path as .BR man (1). .PP .B Apropos searches through all whatis files for the given keywords. It lists any line that has the keyword anywhere on the line. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-a Search all whatis files. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR man (1), .BR grep (1), .BR whatis (5). .SH AUTHOR Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
