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apropos

Searches manual page descriptions.

apropos helps discover commands by searching the short descriptions in the manual page database.

Syntax
apropos keyword

Arguments explained

  • keyword is a word or regular expression to search.

Common examples

Find disk tools
apropos disk

Lists manual pages related to disk.

Find password-related pages
apropos passwd

Shows commands and file formats related to passwd.

apropos Command
FieldDetails
Commandapropos
CategoryShell and Environment
Primary useSearches manual page descriptions.
Syntaxapropos keyword

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