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whatis

List of commands for whatis:

  • whatis:tldr:1ad65 whatis: Search man page descriptions with a regular expression.
    $ whatis --regex '${wish[0-9]\-[0-9]}'
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  • whatis:tldr:2eb6e whatis: Don't cut the description off at the end of the line.
    $ whatis --long ${command}
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  • whatis:tldr:31a6a whatis: Display descriptions of a specific language (requires `manpage-{{locale}}` package).
    $ whatis --locale=${en} ${command}
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  • whatis:tldr:91256 whatis: Display a description from a man page.
    $ whatis ${command}
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  • whatis:tldr:91512 whatis: Display descriptions for all commands matching a glob.
    $ whatis --wildcard ${net*}
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  • whatis:tldr:c0ae8 whatis: Search for information about multiple keywords.
    $ whatis ${keyword1} ${keyword2}
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