Contents
The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis
programs.
Description
man
man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.
apropos
apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
output.
whatis
whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
output. Only complete word matches are displayed.
makewhatis
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
the NAME section of the manual page.