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whatis: add Japanese translation, update page (#9775) 
* whatis: add Japanese translation

* add example of --locale option

* Update whatis.md

Co-authored-by: K.B.Dharun Krishna <kbdharunkrishna@gmail.com>
2023-01-16 23:08:53 +05:30

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whatis

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 of a specific language (requires manpage-{{locale}} package):

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