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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}}`