PTS_APROPOS(1)

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✨ PTS_APROPOS ✨

okay bestie, welcome to pts_apropos 💖 — it lives in the AFS Command Reference (section 1 of the manual, for the record 🎀), and it's genuinely one of the cutest little helpers in the whole pts toolkit. Let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

pts_apropos — displays each help entry containing a keyword string 🔍✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

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

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the vibe: the pts apropos command scrolls through the online help and shows you the first line of the help entry for any pts command that has the string you gave in its name or in its short description — the string being whatever you passed in the -topic argument.

Like, it's a search engine but make it niche. 🕵️♀️

And heads up: if what you actually want is the syntax of a command, you don't want this one — go use the pts help command instead, no cap. 🙈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -topic <help string> — this is where you drop the keyword string you want to match. lowercase letters only, bestie, it's very serious about that 😭. And if your string is more than one single word, wrap it in double quotes ("") or some other delimiters so it doesn't get torn apart. 🫶
  • -help — prints the online help for this command. All the other valid options just get ignored when you do this, so don't bother stacking them. 💀

🌈 OUTPUT 🌈

Every command's online help entry starts with a first line that names the command and gives you a little one-liner about what it does. pts apropos throws that first line at you for any pts command where the string you gave -topic shows up as part of the command name or part of that first line. Simple as. ⭐

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Wanna see every pts command that has the word "create" in its name or short description? Say less:

% pts apropos create
creategroup: create a new group
createuser: create a new user

Look at them. 👑 Two icons, both found.

🧚 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 🧚

None 💖 — literally nothing, it's free, go wild.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

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. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie — OpenAFS, 2026-07-27. go forth and apropos responsibly 💅✨🦋

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