signal

Question 1

apropos

Answer 1

apropos [option] keyword
searches manual (man) description for instances of keywords

Question 2

apropos -d

Answer 2

–debug
print debug information

Question 3

apropos -v

Answer 3

–verbose
print verbose warning messages

Question 4

apropose -r

Answer 4

–regex
interpret each keyword as a regular expression,

Question 5

apropos -w

Answer 5

–wildcard
Interpret each keyword as a pattern containing shell style wildcard.

Question 6

apropos -e

Answer 6

–exact
each keyword will be exactly matched.

Question 7

apropos -a

Answer 7

–and
only dilplay items that match all supplied keywords.

Question 8

apropos -l

Answer 8

–long
do not trim output to the terminal width.

Question 9

apropos -s list

Answer 9

–sections=list, –section=list
search only the given manual sections.

Question 10

apropos -m system

Answer 10

–systems=system
if this system has access to other operating systems’ manual page descriptions, they can be searched using this option.

Question 11

apropos =M path

Answer 11

–manpath=path
specify an alternate set og colon-delimited manual page hierarchies to search.

Question 12

apropos -L local

Answer 12

–local=locale
use this option to supply a locale string directly to apropos.

Question 13

apropos -c file

Answer 13

–config-file=file
use this user configuration file rather then the default of “~/.manpath”.

Question 14

apropos -?

Answer 14

–help
print a short help message and exit.

Question 15

apropos -v

Answer 15

–version
display version information.