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apropos
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September 19, 2005
  • NAME
      apropos - search the whatis database for strings
  • SYNOPSIS
      apropos keyword ...
  • DESCRIPTION
      apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output.
  • AUTHOR
      John W. Eaton was the original author of "man" . Zeyd M. Ben-Halim released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3 thru 1.5p. Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer.
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