> FWIW on Debian-like systems there is "apropos" Ouch, too much Debian credit, too much Linux credit, even. That's by Bill Joy circa 1977, so it's a BSD Unix t

> FWIW on Debian-like systems there is "apropos" Ouch, too much Debian credit, too much Linux credit, even. That's by Bill Joy circa 1977, so it's a BSD Unix thing, widely adopted everywhere else. Man -k was AT&T's reaction to apropos, IIRC. There is a certain logic to using "man" to search man pages.