display one-line manual page descriptions NAME whatis - display one-line manual page descriptions SYNOPSIS whatis [ -dlv?V ] [ -r | -w ] [ -s l......preformatted “cat” pages, and displays their name and description as used by apropos and whatis , the list of preprocessing filters required by the man page before it is passed …search manual page databases NAME apropos , whatis — search manual page databases SYNOPSIS apropos [ -afk ] [ -C file ] [ -M path ] [ -m pat...search manual page databases NAME apropos , whatis — search manual page databases SYNOPSIS apropos [ -afk ] [ -C file ] [ -M path ] [ -m pat......arn of bad ROFF .so requests, bogus manual page filenames and manual pages from which the whatis cannot be parsed. Supplying mandb with an optional colon-delimited path will ove…...ma-delimited operating system names. To include a search of the native operating system's whatis descriptions, include the system name man in the argument string. This option wi…...its own mandoc.db file; see FILES for examples. Such database files are generated by makewhatis(8) and used by man(1) , apropos(1) and whatis(1) . The file format uses three dat…index UNIX manuals NAME makewhatis — index UNIX manuals SYNOPSIS makewhatis [ -aDnpQ ] [ -T utf8 ] [ -C file ] makewhatis [......an -k [ apropos options ] regexp ... man -K [ man options ] [ section ] term ... man -f [ whatis options ] page ... man -l [ man options ] file ... man -w | -W [ man options ] p…...tion. FILES /etc/manpath.config man-db configuration file. SEE ALSO apropos (1), man (1), whatis (1) AUTHOR Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk). Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.…...pher " | " mailto " | " news " | " telnet " | " file " | " ftp " | " man " | " info " | " whatis " | " ldap " | " wais " | ... hierarchical_part = ( net_path | absolute_path ) […...pher " | " mailto " | " news " | " telnet " | " file " | " ftp " | " man " | " info " | " whatis " | " ldap " | " wais " | ... hierarchical_part = ( net_path | absolute_path ) […...pher " | " mailto " | " news " | " telnet " | " file " | " ftp " | " man " | " info " | " whatis " | " ldap " | " wais " | ... hierarchical_part = ( net_path | absolute_path ) […...t to ul(1) . To remove the markup, pipe the output to col(1) -b instead. -f A synonym for whatis(1) . It searches for name in manual page names and displays the header lines fro…...n the system or not executable. Example 18. Misspelt directives $ cat ./user.slice [Unit] WhatIsThis=11 Documentation=man:nosuchfile(1) Requires=different.service [Service] Desc…semantic markup language for formatting manual pages NAME mdoc — semantic markup language for formatting manual pages DESCRIPTION The mdoc language supports authoring of manual pag…