whatis

Display one-line descriptions from manual pages.

More information.

• 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]}'

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