apropos − search the whatis database for strings |
apropos keyword ... |
apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output. |
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. |
whatis(1), man(1). |