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$ man What manual page do you want? For example, try 'man man'. $ apropos apropos what? Apropos tries to find manual pages that may be relevant to the

by rzzzt 5y ago

$ man What manual page do you want? For example, try 'man man'. $ apropos apropos what? Apropos tries to find manual pages that may be relevant to the search string (which should go after "apropos").

zvr 5y ago
Back in the day, man(1), apropos(1) and whatis(1) were all links to the same executable, IIRC.