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# apropos - Unix, Linux Command

# NAME

apropos - search the whatis database for strings

# SYNOPSIS

apropos keyword ...

# DESCRIPTION

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

# AUTHOR

John W. Eaton was the original author of man. Zeyd M. Ben-Halim released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3 thru 1.5p. Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer.

# SEE ALSO

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