Hi,

--- On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan
<[email protected]> wrote:
| whatis returns description for commands whose man pages exist.
|
| There's no
| guarantee that a man page will exist for commands other than standard
| directories.
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/usr/local/share/man (on Fedora) is returned by:

  $ man --path

the output of which is set in /usr/bin/whatis to the manpath variable.

SK

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