apropos in Mac OS X
By: Strauss K
Search the whatis database for strings.
Syntax
apropos keyword ...
The whatis database is a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords. apropos searches this database and displays the result on standard output.
Examples
List
all the man(1) and man(8) commands
$
apropos ' ' | egrep '\(1\)|\(8\)'
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