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diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.xml b/appendixa/man-desc.xml index 5793bd445..c8ac702b6 100644 --- a/appendixa/man-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/man-desc.xml @@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ whatis</para></sect3> <sect3><title>Descriptions</title> <sect4><title>apropos</title> -<para>apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions -of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard +<para>apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing +short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard output.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>makewhatis</title> <para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of -catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each -line consists of the name of the page and a short description, -separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of +catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database. Each +line consists of the name of the page and a short description, +separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>man</title> @@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4> <para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>whatis</title> -<para>whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions -of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard +<para> +whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short +descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4> </sect3> |