apropos
Summary
This command is used to search a keyword for string phrases across man pages, and will return the command, count of the keywords, and a brief description of the command.
An example command usage is below:
$ apropos partition
addpart (8) - simple wrapper around the add partition ioctl
cfdisk (8) - Curses based disk partition table manipulator for Linux
delpart (8) - simple wrapper around the del partition ioctl
fdisk (8) - Partition table manipulator for Linux
GNU Parted [parted] (8) - a partition manipulation program
iostat (1) - Report Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics and input/output statistics for devices, partitions and network filesystems (NFS)
kpartx (8) - Create device maps from partition tables
partprobe (8) - inform the OS of partition table changes
partx (8) - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions
pvcreate (8) - initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM
pvresize (8) - resize a disk or partition in use by LVM2
sfdisk (8) - Partition table manipulator for LinuxReferenced commands: man