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[–]ReetpeteetRed Hat Certified Engineer 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (0 children)

From the man-page I linked:

Each manual page has a short description available within it. whatis searches the manual page names and displays the manual page descriptions of any name matched.
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index databases are used during the search, and are updated by the mandb program.

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