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37 .Nd locate commands by keyword lookup
43 .Op Fl S Ar subsection
48 shows which manual pages contain instances of any of the given
51 Each word is considered separately and case of letters is ignored.
52 Words which are part of other words are considered; when looking for
55 will also list all instances of
61 .Dq Li name(section) ...
63 .Dq Li man section name
67 The options are as follows:
72 configuration file than the default,
75 Override the list of standard directories
77 searches for a database named
83 separated list of directories.
84 This search path may also be set using the environment variable
87 Augment the list of standard directories
89 searches for its database.
94 separated list of directories.
95 These directories will be searched before the standard directories,
96 or the directories supplied with the
100 environment variable.
101 .It Fl S Ar subsection
102 Restrict the search to pages for the specified machine architecture.
103 By default, pages for all architectures are shown.
105 Restrict the search to the specified section of the manual.
106 By default, pages from all sections are shown.
109 .Bl -tag -width MANPATH
111 The standard search path used by
113 may be overridden by specifying a path in the
115 environment variable.
116 The format of the path is a colon
118 separated list of directories.
121 .Bl -tag -width /etc/man.conf1 -compact
123 name of the apropos database
126 configuration file, used to get location of whatis database if