whatis

Display one-line descriptions from manual pages. More information: <https://manned.org/whatis>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/whatis.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install man-db
Ubuntu
apt-get install man-db
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S man-db
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install man-db
CentOS
yum install man-db
Fedora
dnf install man-db
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install man-db
Raspbian
apt-get install man-db

Display one-line descriptions from manual pages. More information: <https://manned.org/whatis>.

  • 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 in a specific language:
    whatis --locale=en command

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