1apropos(1)                  General Commands Manual                 apropos(1)
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NAME

6       apropos - search the whatis database for strings
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SYNOPSIS

9       apropos keyword ...
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DESCRIPTION

12       apropos  searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
13       of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
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AUTHOR

17       John  W.  Eaton  was  the  original  author  of man.  Zeyd M. Ben-Halim
18       released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed  up  with  versions  1.3
19       thru  1.5p.   Federico  Lucifredi  <flucifredi@acm.org>  is the current
20       maintainer.
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SEE ALSO

23       whatis(1), man(1).
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