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| 3 | <para>
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| 4 | The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis
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| 5 | programs.
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| 6 | </para>
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| 8 | </sect2>
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| 10 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 12 | <sect3><title>man</title>
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| 14 | <para>
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| 15 | man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.
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| 16 | </para>
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| 18 | </sect3>
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| 20 | <sect3><title>apropos</title>
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| 22 | <para>
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| 23 | apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
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| 24 | of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
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| 25 | output.
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| 26 | </para>
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| 28 | </sect3>
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| 30 | <sect3><title>whatis</title>
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| 32 | <para>
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| 33 | whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
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| 34 | of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
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| 35 | output. Only complete word matches are displayed.
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| 36 | </para>
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| 38 | </sect3>
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| 40 | <sect3><title>makewhatis</title>
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| 42 | <para>
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| 43 | makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of
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| 44 | manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of
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| 45 | catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each
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| 46 | line consists of the name of the page and a short description,
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| 47 | separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of
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| 48 | the NAME section of the manual page.
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| 49 | </para>
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