Talk:Apropos (Unix)

appropos short for appropriate?
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)

Other software/computer language?
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)