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diff --git a/man/en/whatis.man b/man/en/whatis.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7793394 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/en/whatis.man @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.\" Man page for whatis +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, John W. Eaton. +.\" +.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public +.\" License as specified in the README file that comes with the man 1.0 +.\" distribution. +.\" +.\" John W. Eaton +.\" jwe@che.utexas.edu +.\" Department of Chemical Engineering +.\" The University of Texas at Austin +.\" Austin, Texas 78712 +.\" +.TH whatis 1 "September 19, 2005" +.LO 1 +.SH NAME +whatis \- search the whatis database for complete words. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BI whatis +keyword ... +.SH DESCRIPTION +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. + +The whatis database is created using the command @makewhatis@. +.SH AUTHOR +John W. Eaton was the original author of +.BR "man" . +Zeyd M. Ben-Halim released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3 thru 1.5p. +Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +apropos(1), man(1). |