WHATIS(1) General Commands Manual WHATIS(1)

NAME

whatis — describe what a command is

SYNOPSIS

whatis command ...

DESCRIPTION

The whatis program queries the database /var/db/man.db for manual pages with name command and prints the name of the manual page, the section and the description from the section NAME.

SEE ALSO

apropos(1), makemandb(8)

HISTORY

The whatis command appeared in 3.0BSD. It was rewritten in NetBSD 6.0 to use the SQLite index created by makemandb(8).
February 1, 2012 NetBSD 6.1