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                      5: .\"    @(#)apropos.1   6.5 (Berkeley) 6/30/87
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH APROPOS 1 "June 30, 1987"
                      8: .AT 3
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: apropos \- locate commands by keyword lookup
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B apropos
                     13: [
                     14: .B -M
                     15: .I path
                     16: ]
                     17: keyword ...
                     18: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     19: \fIApropos\fP shows which manual pages contain instances of any of the given
                     20: \fIkeyword\fP(s) in their title line.  Each word is considered separately
                     21: and case of letters is ignored.  Words which are part of other words are
                     22: considered; when looking for compile, \fIapropos\fP will also find all
                     23: instances of ``compiler''.
                     24: .PP
                     25: If the line output by \fIapropos\fP starts ``name(section) ...'' you can
                     26: enter ``man section name'' to get its documentation.
                     27: .PP
                     28: Normally \fIapropos\fP checks in a standard location (/usr/man) for its
                     29: database ``whatis''.  This can be changed by supplying a \fIpath\fP (a
                     30: la the Bourne shell) with the \fB-M\fP flag.  This search path must be
                     31: a colon (``:'') separated list of directories which \fIapropos\fP will
                     32: search for files named ``whatis''.  The path can also be set with the
                     33: environmental variable \fIMANPATH\fP.
                     34: .SH FILES
                     35: .DT
                     36: /usr/man/whatis                data base
                     37: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     38: man(1), whatis(1)

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