NAME

whatis − describe what a command is

SYNOPSIS

whatis command ...

DESCRIPTION

Whatis looks up a given command and displays the header line from the manual section.  You can then run the man(1) command to get more information.  If the line starts ‘name(section) ... you can do man  section  name to get the documentation for it.  Try whatis  ed and then you should do man  1  ed to get the manual page for ed. 

Whatis is actually just the −f option to the man(1) command.

FILES

/usr/man/whatisData base

SEE ALSO

man(1), catman(8)

Sun Release 3.2  —  Last change: 1 February 1985