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apropos
—
apropos |
[-123456789hilMmPpr ] [-C
path] [-n
results] [-S
machine] [-s
section] query |
apropos
utility performs a full text search over the
complete content of all man pages. It uses the FTS engine of Sqlite to perform
the search. The database is created with the help of the
makemandb(8) utility.
This implementation of the apropos
utility
is more sophisticated than the classical version. Like modern search
applications, it uses advanced techniques like stemming and term weighting
to rank the matching results in decreasing order of relevance.
Quotes are optional for specifying multiword queries.
It supports the following options:
-[1-9]
-C
path-h
-i
-l
-M
-m
-n
results-P
-p
-r
-S
machine-s
section_mandb
tag.APROPOS
environment variable is white-space
tokenized as an argument vector and the options in it are parsed and set.
Command line options override the environment options.
apropos
command appeared in 3.0BSD. It was rewritten
in NetBSD 6.0 to support full text search using
Sqlite.
June 16, 2016 | NetBSD 8.99 |