whatis man page on OpenBSD

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WHATIS(1)		   OpenBSD Reference Manual		     WHATIS(1)

NAME
     whatis - describe what a command is

SYNOPSIS
     whatis [-C file] [-M path] [-m path] command ...

DESCRIPTION
     whatis looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual
     page.  You can then use the man(1) command to get more information.
     whatis will match on a case insensitive basis and for multiple word
     entries will match on each individual word.

     The options are as follows:

     -C file
	     Specify an alternate configuration file in man.conf(5) format.
	     The default is /etc/man.conf.

     -M path
	     Override the list of standard directories whatis searches for its
	     database named ``whatis.db''.  The supplied path must be a colon
	     (`:') separated list of directories.  This search path may also
	     be set using the environment variable MANPATH.

     -m path
	     Augment the list of standard directories whatis searches for its
	     database named ``whatis.db''.  The supplied path must be a colon-
	     separated list of directories.  These directories will be
	     searched before the standard directories or the directories
	     supplied with the -M option or the MANPATH environment variable
	     are searched.

ENVIRONMENT
     MANPATH  The standard search path used by man(1) may be overridden by
	      specifying a path in the MANPATH environment variable.

FILES
     whatis.db	    name of the whatis database
     /etc/man.conf  default man(1) configuration file

SEE ALSO
     apropos(1), man(1), whereis(1), which(1), man.conf(5), makewhatis(8)

HISTORY
     The whatis command appeared in 3.0BSD.

OpenBSD 4.9			August 6, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9
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