whatis database (for the terminal application)

warrenpeace

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Just incase you run into the same problem I did, in that apropos results in: apropos: no whatis databases in /usr/share/man /usr/local/mysql/man

You can use the catman command to create a whatis database :)

Ohh, you have to sudo catman. And then wait, and wait, and wait.

To bad the error does not tell you about catman, and catman is not mentioned in the man man page! But thanks to the power of google, my apropos now works.

Cheers,
Warren

ps. bwahaha :-(, at the end of the output of catman I discovered OS X does come with makewhatis which is just probably a better option it is located is /usr/libexec/ not part of your normal path, and I never thought of looking there, ooh and what neat little toys I have found there ;-)
 
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