4.3BSD - /usr/man/cat1/apropos.0

APROPOS(1)                                                          APROPOS(1)


NAME
       apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup

SYNOPSIS
       apropos keyword ...

DESCRIPTION
       Apropos  shows  which  manual  sections contain instances of any of the
       given keywords in their title.  Each word is considered separately  and
       case  of  letters  is ignored.  Words which are part of other words are
       considered; thus, when looking  for  compile,  apropos  will  find  all
       instances of ‘compiler’ also.  Try

              apropos password

       and

              apropos editor

       If the line starts ‘name(section) ...’ you can do ‘man section name’ to
       get the documentation for it.  Try ‘apropos format’ and  then  ‘man  3s
       printf’ to get the manual on the subroutine printf.

       Apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command.

FILES
       /usr/man/whatis          data base

SEE ALSO
       man(1), whatis(1), catman(8)

AUTHOR
       William Joy


7th Edition                      June 5, 1986                       APROPOS(1)