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