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whatis(1)			 User Commands			     whatis(1)

NAME
       whatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword

SYNOPSIS
       whatis command...

DESCRIPTION
       whatis  looks  up a given command and displays the header line from the
       manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more	infor‐
       mation.	If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man -s sec‐
       tion name' to get the documentation for it.  Try `whatis ed'  and  then
       you should do `man -s 1 ed' to get the manual page for ed(1).

       whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.

       whatis  uses the /usr/share/man/windex database.	 This database is cre‐
       ated by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail.

FILES
       /usr/share/man/windex	       Table of contents and keyword database

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │SUNWdoc			   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │CSI			     │enabled			   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       apropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10			  14 Sep 1992			     whatis(1)

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