Software Engineering :: Operating Systems :: Linux :: Command :: whatis
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whatis is a command for obtaining the brief description of a specific command whose exact name is already known. It uses the same database as apropos does. On systems with mandoc, it is a wrapper for apropos -f (search by name only).[1]