WHATIS(1) WHATIS(1) whatis - whatis [-dlv?V] [-r|-w] [-s ] [-m [,...]] [-M ] [-L ] [-C ] ... . whatis , . (-w) -r) . , (\) . , mandb . . whatis , : whatis -M __ -w '*' | sort > __/WHATIS __ /usr/man . -d, --debug . -v, --verbose . -r, --regex . , . whatis . -w, --wildcard . , . whatis . -l, --long . , NAME . -s , --sections=, --section= . . "3" , "3", "3perl", "3x" . "3perl" , . -m [,...], --systems=[,...] , . NewOS -m NewOS . . man . $SYSTEM . -M , --manpath= . whatis $MANPATH , $PATH . $MANPATH . -L , --locale= whatis $LC_MESSAGES $LANG C setlocale(3) . whatis . . . -C , --config-file= ~/.manpath . -?, --help . --usage . -V, --version . 0 . 1 , , . 2 . 16 . SYSTEM $SYSTEM , -m . MANPATH $MANPATH , . manpath(5) . MANWIDTH $MANWIDTH , (--long ). $COLUMNS , ioctl(2) . 80 . /usr/share/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag) . /var/cache/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag) FHS . /usr/share/man/.../whatis WHATIS . apropos(1), man(1), mandb(8) Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk). Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org). Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org). https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db 2.12.1 2024-04-05 WHATIS(1)