WHATIS(1) WHATIS(1) whatis - whatis [-dlv?V] [-r|-w] [-s ] [-m [,...]] [-M ] [-L ] [-C ] ... whatis (-w)(-r) shell mandb cron whatis whatis -M manpath -w '*' | sort > manpath/whatis manpath /usr/man -d, --debug -v, --verbose -r, --regex whatis -w, --wildcard shell whatis -l, --long -s , --sections , --section "3""3""3perl""3x" "3perl" -m [,...], --systems=[,...] NewOS -m NewOS man $SYSTEM -M , --manpath= whatis $MANPATH $PATH $MANPATH -L , --locale= whatis C setlocale(3) $LC_MESSAGES $LANG 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). BUGS https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db 2.12.1 2024-04-05 WHATIS(1)