Did You Know? man is the Linux’s manual pager. Each page argument given to man is normally the name of a program, utility or function. The manual page associated with each of these arguments is then found and displayed. A section, if provided, will direct man to look only in that section of the manual. The default action is to search in all of the available sections, following a pre-defined order and to show only the first page found, even if page exists in several sections.

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apropos

Article Index
1. Name
2. Synopsis
3. Frequently used options
4. Examples

1. Name

apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions

2. Synopsis

apropos  [-dhV] [-e|-w|-r] [-s section]
 [-m system[,...]] [-M path] [-C file] keyword ...

3. Frequently used options

-s section, --section section   Search only 
the given manual section. 
-e, --exact  Each  keyword will be exactly matched
against the page names and the descriptions.