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        !            20: .Dd July 24, 1990
        !            21: .Dt APROPOS 1
        !            22: .Sh NAME
        !            23: .Nm apropos
        !            24: .Nd locate commands by keyword lookup
        !            25: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            26: .Nm apropos
        !            27: .Op Fl M Ar path
        !            28: .Op Fl m Ar path
        !            29: .Ar keyword ...
        !            30: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            31: .Nm Apropos
        !            32: shows which manual pages contain instances of any of the given
        !            33: .Ar keyword(s)
        !            34: in their title line.
        !            35: Each word is considered separately and case of letters is ignored.
        !            36: Words which are part of other words are considered; when looking for
        !            37: \*(Lqcompile\*(Rq,
        !            38: .Nm apropos
        !            39: will also list all instances of \*(Lqcompiler\*(Rq.
        !            40: .Pp
        !            41: If the line output by
        !            42: .Nm apropos
        !            43: starts
        !            44: .Li \*(Lqname(section) ...\*(Rq
        !            45: you can enter
        !            46: .Li \*(Lqman section name\*(Rq
        !            47: to get
        !            48: its documentation.
        !            49: .Pp
        !            50: The options are as follows:
        !            51: .Tp Fl M
        !            52: Override the list of standard directories where
        !            53: .Nm apropos
        !            54: searches for a database named
        !            55: .Pa whatis.db .
        !            56: The supplied
        !            57: .Ar path
        !            58: must be a colon (\*(Lq:\*(Rq) separated list of directories.
        !            59: This search path may also be set using the environment variable
        !            60: .Ev MANPATH .
        !            61: .Tp Fl m
        !            62: Augment the list of standard directories where
        !            63: .Nm apropos
        !            64: searches for its database.
        !            65: The supplied
        !            66: .Ar path
        !            67: must be a colon (\*(Lq:\*(Rq) separated list of directories.
        !            68: These directories will be searched before the standard directories
        !            69: or the directories supplied with the
        !            70: .Fl M
        !            71: option or the
        !            72: .Ev MANPATH
        !            73: environmental variable are searched.
        !            74: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
        !            75: .Tw MANPATH
        !            76: .Tp Ev MANPATH
        !            77: The standard search path used by
        !            78: .Xr man 1
        !            79: may be overridden by specifying a path in the
        !            80: .Ev MANPATH
        !            81: environmental variable.
        !            82: The format of the path is a colon (\*(Lq:\*(Rq) separated list of directories.
        !            83: .Tp
        !            84: .Sh FILES
        !            85: .Dw whatis.db
        !            86: .Di L
        !            87: .Dp Pa whatis.db
        !            88: name of the apropos database
        !            89: .Dp
        !            90: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !            91: .Xr man 1 ,
        !            92: .Xr whatis 1 ,
        !            93: .Xr whereis 1
        !            94: .Sh HISTORY
        !            95: .Nm apropos
        !            96: appeared in 3 BSD.

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