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version 1.3, 1998/03/24 05:40:17

version 1.5, 1999/07/04 11:53:50

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.Nm apropos

.Op Fl M Ar path

.Op Fl m Ar path

.Ar keyword ...

.Ar keyword

.Op Ar ...

.Sh DESCRIPTION

.Nm Apropos

.Nm

shows which manual pages contain instances of any of the given

.Ar 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

.Dq compile ,

.Nm apropos

.Nm

will also list all instances of

.Dq compiler .

.Pp

If the line output by

.Nm apropos

.Nm

starts

.Dq Li name(section) ...

you can enter

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.Bl -tag -width flag

.It Fl M Ar path

Override the list of standard directories

.Nm apropos

.Nm

searches for a database named

.Pa whatis.db .

The supplied

.Ar path

must be a colon

.Dq \&:

.Pq Sq \&:

separated list of directories.

This search path may also be set using the environment variable

.Ev MANPATH .

.It Fl m path

.It Fl m Ar path

Augment the list of standard directories

.Nm apropos

.Nm

searches for its database.

The supplied

.Ar path

must be a colon

.Dq \&:

.Pq Sq \&:

separated list of directories.

These directories will be searched before the standard directories,

or the directories supplied with the

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.Ev MANPATH

environment variable.

The format of the path is a colon

.Dq \&:

.Pq Sq \&:

separated list of directories.

.El

.Sh FILES

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.Xr whereis 1

.Sh HISTORY

The

.Nm apropos

.Nm

command appeared in

.Bx 3.0 .