whatis Command Examples

Display one-line descriptions from manual pages. More information: https://manned.org/whatis.

• 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]}}'

• Display descriptions in a specific language:

whatis --locale={{en}} {{command}}