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.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 18 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 21 2014 $
.Dt APROPOS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
and
.Nm whatis
utilities query manual page databases generated by
-.Xr mandocdb 8 ,
+.Xr makewhatis 8 ,
evaluating
.Ar expression
for each file in each database.
-By default, it displays the names, section numbers, and description lines
+By default, they display the names, section numbers, and description lines
of all matching manuals.
.Pp
By default,
.Nm
searches for
-.Xr mandocdb 8
+.Xr makewhatis 8
databases in the default paths stipulated by
.Xr man 1
and uses case-insensitive substring matching
.It Fl M Ar path
Use the colon-separated path instead of the default list of paths
searched for
-.Xr mandocdb 8
+.Xr makewhatis 8
databases.
Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are ignored.
.It Fl m Ar path
Prepend the colon-separated paths to the list of paths searched
for
-.Xr mandocdb 8
+.Xr makewhatis 8
databases.
Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are ignored.
.It Fl O Ar outkey
.Op Ar key Op , Ar key ...
.Pq Cm = | ~
.Oc
-.Ar val
-.Sm on ,
+.Ar val ,
+.Sm on
where
.Ar key
is an
Queries evaluate over a subset of
.Xr mdoc 7
macros indexed by
-.Xr mandocdb 8 .
+.Xr makewhatis 8 .
In addition to the macro keys listed below, the special key
.Cm any
may be used to match any available macro key.
.Bl -tag -width "/etc/man.conf" -compact
.It Pa mandoc.db
name of the
-.Xr mandocdb 8
+.Xr makewhatis 8
keyword database
.It Pa /etc/man.conf
default
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr man 1 ,
.Xr re_format 7 ,
-.Xr mandocdb 8
+.Xr makewhatis 8
.Sh HISTORY
-An
+Part of the functionality of
+.Nm whatis
+was already provided by the former
+.Nm manwhere
+utility in
+.Bx 1 .
+The
.Nm
-utility first appeared in
+and
+.Nm whatis
+utilities first appeared in
.Bx 2 .
-It was rewritten from scratch for
+They were rewritten from scratch for
.Ox 5.6 .
.Pp
The
and
.Fl s
in
-.Ox 4.5 .
+.Ox 4.5
+for
+.Nm
+and in
+.Ox 5.6
+for
+.Nm whatis .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.An Bill Joy
-wrote the original
+wrote
+.Nm manwhere
+in 1977 and the original
.Bx
.Nm
+and
+.Nm whatis
in February 1979.
The current version was written by
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv