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                     30: .\"     @(#)whatis.1   8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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                     32: .Dd June 6, 1993
                     33: .Dt WHATIS 1
1.4       aaron      34: .Os
1.1       deraadt    35: .Sh NAME
                     36: .Nm whatis
                     37: .Nd describe what a command is
                     38: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     39: .Nm whatis
                     40: .Op Fl M Ar path
                     41: .Op Fl m Ar path
1.3       aaron      42: .Ar command Op Ar ...
1.1       deraadt    43: .Sh DESCRIPTION
1.6       aaron      44: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    45: looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual page.
                     46: You can then use the
                     47: .Xr man 1
                     48: command to get more information.
1.7       millert    49: .Nm
                     50: will match on a case insensitive basis and for multiple word entries
                     51: will match on each individual word.
1.1       deraadt    52: .Pp
                     53: The options are as follows:
1.8       aaron      54: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.7       millert    55: .It Fl C Ar file
                     56: Specify an alternate configuration file in
                     57: .Xr man.conf 5
                     58: format.  The default is
                     59: .Pa /etc/man.conf .
1.1       deraadt    60: .It Fl M Ar path
                     61: Override the list of standard directories
1.6       aaron      62: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    63: searches for its database named
                     64: .Dq Pa whatis.db .
                     65: The supplied
                     66: .Ar path
                     67: must be a colon
1.6       aaron      68: .Pq Ql \&:
1.1       deraadt    69: separated list of directories.
                     70: This search path may also be set using the environment variable
                     71: .Ev MANPATH .
                     72: .It Fl m Ar path
                     73: Augment the list of standard directories
1.6       aaron      74: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    75: searches for its database named
                     76: .Dq Pa whatis.db .
                     77: The supplied
                     78: .Ar path
1.6       aaron      79: must be a colon-separated list of directories.
1.1       deraadt    80: These directories will be searched before the standard directories
                     81: or the directories supplied with the
                     82: .Fl M
                     83: option or the
                     84: .Ev MANPATH
                     85: environment variable are searched.
                     86: .El
                     87: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                     88: .Bl -tag -width MANPATH
                     89: .It Ev MANPATH
                     90: The standard search path used by
                     91: .Xr man 1
                     92: may be overridden by specifying a path in the
                     93: .Ev MANPATH
                     94: environment variable.
                     95: .El
                     96: .Sh FILES
                     97: .Bl -tag -width whatis.db
                     98: .It Pa whatis.db
                     99: name of the whatis database
                    100: .El
                    101: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    102: .Xr apropos 1 ,
                    103: .Xr man 1 ,
1.5       aaron     104: .Xr whereis 1 ,
1.7       millert   105: .Xr which 1 ,
                    106: .Xr man.conf 5
1.1       deraadt   107: .Sh HISTORY
                    108: The
                    109: .Nm
                    110: command appeared in
                    111: .Bx 3.0 .