DESCRIPTION
whatis looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual page. You can then use the
man(1) command to get more information.
The options are as follows:
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-C path
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Use different man(1) configuration file than the default, /etc/man.conf.
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-M path
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Override the list of standard directories whatis searches for its database named “whatis.db”. The supplied path must be a colon “:” separated list of directories. This search path may also be set using the environment variable MANPATH.
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-m path
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Augment the list of standard directories whatis searches for its database named “whatis.db”. The supplied path must be a colon “:” separated list of directories. These directories will be searched before the standard directories or the directories supplied with the -M option or the MANPATH environment variable are searched.