APROPOS(1) - General Commands Manual # APROPOS(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # apropos, whatis - search manual page databases
SYNOPSIS # apropos [-afk] [-C file] [-M path] [-m path] [-O outkey] [-S arch] [-s section] expression …
DESCRIPTION # The apropos and whatis utilities query manual page databases generated by makewhatis(8), evaluating expression for each file in each database. By default, they display the names, section numbers, and description lines of all matching manuals.
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HIER(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # HIER(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual
NAME # hier - layout of filesystems
DESCRIPTION # A sketch of the filesystem hierarchy.
/
Root directory.
/altroot/
Alternate (backup) location for the root (’/’) filesystem (see daily(8)).
/bin/
User utilities fundamental to both single and multi-user environments. These programs are statically compiled and therefore do not depend on any system libraries to run.
/bsd
Pure kernel executable (the operating system loaded into memory at boot-time).
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MAKEWHATIS(8) - System Manager’s Manual # MAKEWHATIS(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # makewhatis - index UNIX manuals
SYNOPSIS # makewhatis [-aDnpQ] [-TÂ utf8] [-CÂ file]
makewhatis [-aDnpQ] [-T utf8] dir …
makewhatis [-DnpQ] [-T utf8] -d dir [file …]
makewhatis [-Dnp] [-T utf8] -u dir [file …]
makewhatis [-DQ] -t file …
DESCRIPTION # The makewhatis utility extracts keywords from UNIX manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by apropos(1), whatis(1), and man(1).
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MAN.CONF(5) - File Formats Manual # MAN.CONF(5) - File Formats Manual
NAME # man.conf - configuration file for man
DESCRIPTION # This is the configuration file for the man(1), apropos(1), and makewhatis(8) utilities. Its presence, and all directives, are optional.
This file is an ASCII text file. Leading whitespace on lines, lines starting with ‘#’, and blank lines are ignored. Words are separated by whitespace. The first word on each line is the name of a configuration directive.
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MANDOC.DB(5) - File Formats Manual # MANDOC.DB(5) - File Formats Manual
NAME # mandoc.db - manual page database
DESCRIPTION # The mandoc.db file format is used to store information about installed manual pages to facilitate semantic searching for manuals. Each manual page tree contains 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 datatypes:
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MANDOC(1) - General Commands Manual # MANDOC(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # mandoc - format manual pages
SYNOPSIS # mandoc [-ac] [-I os=name] [-K encoding] [-mdoc | -man] [-O options] [-T output] [-W level] [file …]
DESCRIPTION # The mandoc utility formats manual pages for display.
By default, mandoc reads mdoc(7) or man(7) text from stdin and produces -T locale output.
The options are as follows:
-a
If the standard output is a terminal device and -c is not specified, use less(1) to paginate the output, just like man(1) would.
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WHEREIS(1) - General Commands Manual # WHEREIS(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # whereis - locate programs
SYNOPSIS # whereis [-a] name …
DESCRIPTION # The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified name, printing out the paths of any it finds that are executable by the user.
The path searched is:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
If the -a flag is given, whereis will return a list of all matches instead of just the first match.
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