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6.8
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| 3 | <para>The Man package contains the apropos, makewhatis, man and whatis
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| 4 | programs.</para>
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| 6 | </sect2>
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| 8 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 10 | <sect3><title>apropos</title>
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| 11 | <para>apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
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| 12 | of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
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| 13 | output.</para></sect3>
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| 15 | <sect3><title>makewhatis</title>
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| 16 | <para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of
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| 17 | manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of
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| 18 | catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each
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| 19 | line consists of the name of the page and a short description,
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| 20 | separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of
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| 21 | the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect3>
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| 23 | <sect3><title>man</title>
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| 24 | <para>man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.</para></sect3>
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| 26 | <sect3><title>whatis</title>
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| 27 | <para>whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
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| 28 | of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
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| 29 | output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect3>
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| 31 | </sect2>
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