NAME

apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

SYNOPSIS

apropos keyword. . .

AVAILABILITY

SUNWdoc

DESCRIPTION

apropos displays the man page name, section number, and a short description for each man page whose NAME line contains keyword. This information is contained in the /usr/share/man/windex database created by catman(1M). If catman(1M) was not run, or was run with the -n option, apropos fails. Each word is considered separately and the case of letters is ignored. Words which are part of other words are considered; for example, when looking for `compile', apropos finds all instances of `compiler' also.

apropos is actually just the -k option to the man (1)command.

Try

example% apropos password

and

        example% apropos editor
If the line starts `filename(section) . . .' you can do `man -s section filename' to display the
man page for filename. Try
        example% apropos format

and then

example% man -s 3s printf

to get the manual page on the subroutine printf( ).

FILES

/usr/share/man/windex

table of contents and keyword database

SEE ALSO

man (1),whatis(1), catman(1M)

DIAGNOSTICS

/usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory

This database does not exist. catman(1M) must be run to create it.