1WHATIS(1) 386BSD Reference Manual WHATIS(1) 2 3NNAAMMEE 4 wwhhaattiiss - describe what a command is 5 6SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS 7 wwhhaattiiss [--MM _p_a_t_h] [--mm _p_a_t_h] _c_o_m_m_a_n_d ... 8 9DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN 10 WWhhaattiiss looks up a given command and gives the header line from the manual 11 page. You can then use the man(1) command to get more information. 12 13 The options are as follows: 14 15 --MM _p_a_t_h Override the list of standard directories wwhhaattiiss searches for 16 its database named ``_w_h_a_t_i_s._d_b''. The supplied _p_a_t_h must be a 17 colon ``:'' separated list of directories. This search path 18 may also be set using the environment variable MANPATH. 19 20 --mm _p_a_t_h Augment the list of standard directories wwhhaattiiss searches for 21 its database named ``_w_h_a_t_i_s._d_b''. The supplied _p_a_t_h must be a 22 colon ``:'' separated list of directories. These directories 23 will be searched before the standard directories or the 24 directories supplied with the --MM option or the MANPATH 25 environment variable are searched. 26 27EENNVVIIRROONNMMEENNTT 28 MANPATH The standard search path used by man(1) may be overridden by 29 specifying a path in the MANPATH environment variable. 30 31FFIILLEESS 32 whatis.db name of the whatis database 33 34SSEEEE AALLSSOO 35 apropos(1), man(1), whereis(1) 36 37HHIISSTTOORRYY 38 The wwhhaattiiss command appeared in 3.0BSD. 39 404th Berkeley Distribution April 23, 1991 1 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67