| WHATIS(1) | General Commands Manual | WHATIS(1) | 
NAME
 whatis — describe what a command is
DESCRIPTION
 The 
whatis program queries the apropos database built by 
makemandb(8). It searches for manual pages with name 
command and outputs name of the matching manual pages along with the section and the brief description from the NAME section.
 
FILES
- 
/etc/man.conf
- 
The location of the Sqlite FTS database can be configured using the _mandb tag.
 
HISTORY
 The 
whatis command appeared in 3.0BSD. It was rewritten in 
NetBSD 6.0 to use the SQLite index created by 
makemandb(8).