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@@ -19,22 +19,28 @@ .Os .Sh NAME .Nm apropos -.Nd search the manual page database +.Nd search manual page databases .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm +.Op Fl m Ar manpath .Op Fl S Ar arch .Op Fl s Ar section .Ar expression... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -utility queries a manual page database generated by +utility queries manual page databases generated by .Xr mandocdb 8 , evaluating on .Ar expression -for each file in the database. +for each file in each database. Its arguments are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl m Ar manpath +A colon-separated list of paths containing +.Xr mandocdb 8 +databases. +Paths may be relative or absolute. .It Fl S Ar arch Search only for a particular architecture. .It Fl s Ar cat @@ -105,6 +111,9 @@ is evaluated case-insensitively. .Pp By default, .Nm +searches for +.Xr mandocdb 8 +database in the current working directory and parses terms as case-sensitive regular expressions .Pq the Li \&~ operator over manual names and descriptions |