apropos — Locate Commands by Keyword Lookup
Synopsis
/usr/bin/apropos keyword... Description
apropos displays the manual page name, section number, and a short description for each manual page whose line contains the keyword . This information is contained in the /usr/share/man/windex database created by catman(1M). If catman(1M) was not run or was run with the -n option, apropos fails. Each word is considered separately, and the case of letters is ignored. Words that are part of other words are considered; for example, when looking for compile, apropos also finds all instances of compiler.
Note
apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command.
Examples
castle% apropos password d_passwd d_passwd (4) - dial-up password file ...Get Solaris™ 7 Reference now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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