What man command option will search the short descriptions a

What man command option will  search the short descriptions and manual page names for a keyword and print out any matches.

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What man command option?

Solution

-k, --apropos which is equivalent to apropos command will search for the short descriptions and manual page names for any keyword and displays the matches that were found.

Keyword can be regular expression,also may contain wildcards,or exactly instance of word.The syntax for this man command option is follows :

man -k [apropos options] regexp