whatis(1) User Commands whatis(1)NAMEwhatis - display a one-line summary about a keyword
SYNOPSISwhatis command...
DESCRIPTIONwhatis looks up a given command and displays the header line from the
manual section. You can then run the man(1) command to get more infor‐
mation. If the line starts `name(section) ...' you can do `man -s sec‐
tion name' to get the documentation for it. Try `whatis ed' and then
you should do `man -s 1 ed' to get the manual page for ed(1).
whatis is actually just the -f option to the man(1) command.
whatis uses the /usr/share/man/windex database. This database is cre‐
ated by catman(1M). If this database does not exist, whatis will fail.
FILES
/usr/share/man/windex Table of contents and keyword database
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWdoc │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│CSI │enabled │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOapropos(1), man(1), catman(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 whatis(1)