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# Man

## Contents

The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis programs.

## Description

### man

man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.

### apropos

apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output.

### whatis

whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output. Only complete word matches are displayed.

### makewhatis

makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each line consists of the name of the page and a short description, separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the NAME section of the manual page.

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