whatis
Display one-line descriptions from manual pages. More information: https://manned.org/whatis.
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Display a description from a man page:
whatis {{command}} -
Don't cut the description off at the end of the line:
whatis --long {{command}} -
Display descriptions for all commands matching a glob:
whatis --wildcard {{net*}} -
Search man page descriptions with a regular expression:
whatis --regex '{{wish[0-9]\.[0-9]}}' -
Display descriptions of a specific language (requires
manpage-{{locale}}package):
whatis --locale={{en}} {{command}}
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