WHATIS(1) NetBSD 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). NetBSD 6.0.1 February 1, 2012 NetBSD 6.0.1
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