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in Unix/Linus, What is the difference between man and whatis commands?

in Unix/Linus, What is the difference between man and whatis commands?
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"man" command basically gives us the user manual of the particular command that we could run on the terminal , basically it gives us complete detailed view of the command. It is the interface to see the reference manuals.

"whatis" command basically gives us a one line manual page description , in Linus/unix every manual page will have some description so "whatis" command searches for the description and displays the manual page description of the specified command.

Note : Please feel free to ask queries , I will be glad to help.

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