> Hi,
> 
> I want sometimes to avoid getting answers to my apropos query  from the
> man section 3 and 3x (ie I want only commands and no APIs). How can I do
> that without statically removing those man sections?
> 


One way would be to filter out all the 3 and 3x answers:

apropos open | grep -v '(3)' | grep -v '(3x)'


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