Talk:apropos (Unix)

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appropos short for appropriate?[edit]

Is apropos short for "appropriate"? For example running "apropos hdf5-18" will give the error "nothing appropriate".

It's plain English, look it up in the dictionary :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.209.89.69 (talk) 12:48, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For instance, in Common Lisp there are two functions to search symbols available to packages, like apropos and apropos-list. 82.169.255.79 (talk) 19:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]