NAME
whatis - search the whatis database for complete
words.
SYNOPSIS
whatis keyword ...
DESCRIPTION
whatis searches a set of database files
containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and
displays the result on the standard output. Only complete word
matches are displayed.
The whatis database is created using the command
/usr/sbin/makewhatis.
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.
SEE ALSO
apropos(1),
man(1).