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Why do the 'whatis whatis' and 'apropos whatis' commands have the same result in UNIX?
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- "whatis" displays the one line manual page description for its argument
- "apropos" searches all the manual pages titles and descriptions for the argument and will list the one line manual page description for all the matching entries it finds.
Therefore "apropos whatis" will find only one matching man page and will report the same information as "whatis whatis" command.
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