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diff --git a/usr.bin/whatis/whatis.1 b/usr.bin/whatis/whatis.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f1b0a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/whatis/whatis.1 @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)whatis.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dt WHATIS 1 +.Os BSD 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm whatis +.Nd describe what a command is +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm whatis +.Op Fl M Ar path +.Op Fl m Ar path +.Ar command Ar ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Whatis +looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual page. +You can then use the +.Xr man 1 +command to get more information. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Fl +.It Fl M Ar path +Override the list of standard directories +.Nm whatis +searches for its database named +.Dq Pa whatis.db . +The supplied +.Ar path +must be a colon +.Dq \&: +separated list of directories. +This search path may also be set using the environment variable +.Ev MANPATH . +.It Fl m Ar path +Augment the list of standard directories +.Nm whatis +searches for its database named +.Dq Pa whatis.db . +The supplied +.Ar path +must be a colon +.Dq \&: +separated list of directories. +These directories will be searched before the standard directories +or the directories supplied with the +.Fl M +option or the +.Ev MANPATH +environment variable are searched. +.El +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +.Bl -tag -width MANPATH +.It Ev MANPATH +The standard search path used by +.Xr man 1 +may be overridden by specifying a path in the +.Ev MANPATH +environment variable. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width whatis.db +.It Pa whatis.db +name of the whatis database +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr apropos 1 , +.Xr man 1 , +.Xr whereis 1 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 3.0 . |