Display one-line descriptions from manual pages.
- Display a description from a man page:
whatis {{command}}
- Don't cut the description off at the end of the line:
whatis --long {{command}}
- Display descriptions for all commands matching a glob:
whatis --wildcard {{net*}}
- Search man page descriptions with a regular expression:
whatis --regex '{{wish[0-9]\.[0-9]}}'