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unix Written October 30, 2015 · Last changed October 01, 2016

You can use the apropos command with a keyword argument to search for that words occurrence throughout all the man pages on your system. For instance, invoking apropos whatis will bring up a list of entries including the apropos command itself.

See man apropos for more details.

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