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5 .\" Man page for whatis
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19 .TH whatis 1 "Jan 5, 1991"
22 whatis \- search the whatis database for complete words.
27 whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
28 of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the
29 standard output. Only complete word matches are displayed.
31 The whatis database is created using the command /usr/sbin/makewhatis.