whatis

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
whatis

   <tool> 1. A {Unix} command which searches for a given string
   in the headings of all {man} pages.

   2. A command which searches the {archie} {Software Description
   Database} for a given string, with case being ignored.

   (1995-11-12)
    

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