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What is the role of whatis and makewhatis in Linux? aiming at this question, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and solution in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and feasible method.

If you are a minimized installation of RHEL 6, the man whatis command is not included and you need to install man. Whatis may be familiar to you, but what about makewhatis? In fact, the result of whatis running is to retrieve the situation of the command into its database. For systems that do not yet have this database, you need to use the makewhatis command to have the system retrieve it immediately. Otherwise, the system will retrieve it automatically at a certain time. You should be more clearly aware of this through the example of the command run below.

[root@OwnLinux-server media] # whatis whatiswhatis: nothing appropriate [root@OwnLinux-server media] # whatis makewhatismakewhatis: nothing appropriate [root@OwnLinux-server media] # whatis lsls: nothing appropriate [root@OwnLinux-server media] # makewhatis [root@OwnLinux-server media] # whatis whatiswhatis (1)-search the whatis database for complete words [root@OwnLinux-server media] # whatis makewhatismakewhatis (8)-Create the whatis database's answer to the question about the role of whatis and makewhatis in Linux is shared here I hope the above content can help you to a certain extent, if you still have a lot of doubts to be solved, you can follow the industry information channel to learn more related knowledge.

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