What is whatis?
whatis example
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What is whatis?
whatis command displays a single line information about a command.
whatis Example
Display single line information about a command
Use whatis command to display single line information about all the keyword matches of passwd.
$ whatis ifconfig ifconfig (8) - configure a network interface
When there are more than one man page available for a particular command, it will displays single line information from all those man pages as shown below.
$ whatis passwd passwd (1) - update a user's authentication tokens(s) passwd (5) - password file passwd [sslpasswd] (1ssl) - compute password hashes
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