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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-23 23:26:05 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-23 23:26:05 +0000
commitf54222f069d8626375e0b565d7ff6626aecc05dd (patch)
treece7f5e1016bc069b51da4893fa52b17d9fc88b42
parent499a1062fa85745344e98b48fb305d0cb87ee129 (diff)
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@@ -26,13 +26,18 @@
.Nm whatis
.Ar keyword ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
.Nm
+utility
searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the
standard output.
+The
.Nm whatis
+utility
displays only complete word matches.
.Pp
+The
.Ar keyword
really is an extended regular expression, please read
.Xr grep 1