APROPOS(1) Manual pager utils APROPOS(1) (NAME) apropos - (SYNOPSIS) apropos [-dalv?V] [-e|-w|-r] [-s list] [-m system[,...]] [-M path] [-L locale] [-C file] keyword ... (DESCRIPTION) . apropos keyword () . keyword (-r) (-w) (-e). keyword (\) . . apropos mandb . (cron job) . (OPTIONS) -d, --debug . -v, --verbose . -r, --regex . . . . -w, --wildcard (wildcard) . . --exact . . -e, --exact . -a, --and . . -l, --long . NAME . -s list, --sections=list, --section=list . list . list ( "3") "3" "3perl" "3x" list ( "3perl") . -m system[,...], --systems=system[,...] . NewOS -m NewOS . system . whatis man . $SYSTEM . -M path, --manpath=path . apropos $MANPATH manpath $PATH . $MANPATH . -L locale, --locale=locale apropos C setlocale(3) $LC_MESSAGES $LANG . locale apropos . . . -C file, --config-file=file ~/.manpath. -?, --help . --usage . -V, --version . (EXIT STATUS) 0 . 1 . 2 . 16 . (ENVIRONMENT) SYSTEM $SYSTEM -m . MANPATH $MANPATH ( ) . SEARCH PATH manpath(5) . MANWIDTH $MANWIDTH ( --long ). $COLUMNS ioctl(2) . POSIXLY_CORRECT $POSIXLY_CORRECT ( ) apropos (-r) . . (FILES) /usr/share/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag) index. /var/cache/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag) index FHS. /usr/share/man/.../whatis whatis. (SEE ALSO) man(1), whatis(1), mandb(8) (AUTHORS) Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk). Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org). Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org). (REPORTING BUGS) https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db 2.13.1 2025-05-02 APROPOS(1)