whatis

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whatis - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  whatis
  
     <tool> 1. A Unix command which searches for a given string
     in the headings of all man pages.
  
     2. A command which searches the archie Software Description Database
      for a given string, with case being ignored.
  
     (1995-11-12)