@(#)apropos.1 4.1 (Berkeley) 04/29/85

.AT 3 apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup apropos keyword ... Apropos shows which manual sections contain instances of any of the given keywords in their title. Each word is considered separately and case of letters is ignored. Words which are part of other words are considered thus looking for compile will hit all instances of `compiler' also. Try apropos password

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apropos editor

If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man section name' to get the documentation for it. Try `apropos format' and then `man 3s printf' to get the manual on the subroutine printf.

Apropos is actually just the -k option to the man (2) command.

/usr/lib/whatis data base man(1), whatis(1), catman(8) William Joy