FS_APROPOS(1)

✨ FS_APROPOS(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this one lives in the AFS Command Reference and it's literally just fs_apropos — the lil search bar for your fs help pages 🎀

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💖 NAME 💖

fs_apropos — searches every help entry and shows you the ones that contain a keyword string 🔍✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

fs apropos -topic <help string> [-help]

fs ap -t <help string> [-h]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So the fs apropos command does the cutest thing ever: it goes through the online help entries for the fs commands, and if the string you typed with the -topic argument shows up in a command's name or in its short description, it prints out the first line of that help entry. That's it. That's the whole vibe 💅

Wanna see the actual syntax for a command instead of just a little teaser line? Then go use fs help. Different tool, different job, no cap 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -topic <help string> — this is your search string, the thing you're matchmaking against. Heads up: it has to be in lowercase letters only. And if your string is more than one single word, wrap it in double quotes ("") or some other delimiters so it doesn't get messy 💖
• -help — prints the online help for this command. Every other valid option just gets ignored when you use it, fr fr 🙈

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✨ OUTPUT ✨

Every command's online help entry starts with one first line that names the command and gives you a tiny description of what it does. This command shows you that first line for any fs command where the string you passed to -topic is part of the command name or part of that first line. Cute, right? 🎀

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Say you wanna see every fs command that's got the word "cache" in its name or in its short online description. You'd run:

% fs apropos cache
setcachesize: set cache size
flush: flush file from cache
getcacheparms: get cache usage info
monitor: set cache monitor host address

look at that output slay 🔥

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⭐ PRIVILEGE REQUIRED ⭐

None 🫶 you don't need any special permissions, it's giving free and accessible.

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• fs(1)
• fs_help(1)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.

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and that's the whole page bestie 💅 this edition of the AFS Command Reference was brought to you by the lovely folks at OpenAFS, dated 2026-07-27 — go read some help pages, ily, bye 🦋✨