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30.Dd June 16, 2016
31.Dt WHATIS 1
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm whatis
35.Nd describe what a command is
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl C Ar path
39.Ar command Ar ...
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43program queries the apropos database built by
44.Xr makemandb 8 .
45It searches for manual pages with name
46.Ar command
47and outputs name of the matching manual pages along with the section and the
48brief description from the NAME section.
49.Pp
50It supports the following options:
51.Bl -tag -width indent
52.It Fl C Ar path
53Use different
54.Xr man 1
55configuration file than the default,
56.Pa /etc/man.conf .
57.El
58.Sh FILES
59.Bl -hang -width /etc/man.conf -compact
60.It Pa /etc/man.conf
61The location of the Sqlite FTS database can be configured using the
62.Cd _mandb
63tag.
64.El
65.Sh SEE ALSO
66.Xr apropos 1 ,
67.Xr man 1 ,
68.Xr man.conf 5 ,
69.Xr makemandb 8
70.Sh HISTORY
71The
72.Nm
73command appeared in 3.0BSD.
74It was rewritten in
75.Nx 6.0
76to use the SQLite index created by
77.Xr makemandb 8 .
78