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APROPOS(1)                BSD General Commands Manual               APROPOS(1)

NAME
     apropos -- locate commands by keyword lookup

SYNOPSIS
     apropos [-C path] [-M path] [-m path] [-S subsection] [-s section]
             keyword ...

DESCRIPTION
     apropos shows which manual pages contain instances of any of the given
     keyword(s) in their title line.  Each word is considered separately and
     case of letters is ignored.  Words which are part of other words are
     considered; when looking for "compile", apropos will also list all
     instances of "compiler".

     If the line output by apropos starts "name(section) ..." you can enter
     "man section name" to get its documentation.

     The options are as follows:

     -C    Use different man(1) configuration file than the default,
           /etc/man.conf.

     -M    Override the list of standard directories apropos searches for a
           database named whatis.db.  The supplied path must be a colon ":"
           separated list of directories.  This search path may also be set
           using the environment variable MANPATH.

     -m    Augment the list of standard directories apropos searches for its
           database.  The supplied path must be a colon ":" separated list of
           directories.  These directories will be searched before the
           standard directories, or the directories supplied with the -M
           option or the MANPATH environment variable.

     -S subsection
           Restrict the search to pages for the specified machine
           architecture.  By default, pages for all architectures are shown.

     -s section
           Restrict the search to the specified section of the manual.  By
           default, pages from all sections are shown.

ENVIRONMENT
     MANPATH  The standard search path used by man(1) may be overridden by
              specifying a path in the MANPATH environment variable.  The
              format of the path is a colon ":" separated list of directories.

FILES
     whatis.db       name of the apropos database
     /etc/man.conf   man(1) configuration file, used to get location of whatis
                     database if MANPATH is not set.

SEE ALSO
     man(1), whatis(1), whereis(1), man.conf(5), makewhatis(8)

HISTORY
     The apropos command appeared in 3.0BSD.

BSD                               May 7, 2009                              BSD

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