VOS_APROPOS(1)

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✨ VOS_APROPOS ✨

ok so bestie, welcome to the vos_apropos page from the AFS Command Reference — this is your little search bar for the vos help system and honestly it's iconic 💅

💖 NAME 💖

vos_apropos — it shows you every help entry that's got your keyword string in it 🔍✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

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

see how ap is just apropos in a crop top and -t is -topic being lazy? yeah. same command, shorter fits 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea, bestie 🍵 — the vos apropos command prints out the first line of the online help entry for any vos command that has the string you gave to the -topic argument somewhere in its name or in its short description. it's giving "search engine but make it main character energy" 👑

And if what you actually wanted was the syntax for a command? different vibe, different tool — use the vos help command for that one. not me being like "wrong door, babe" 😭

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -topic <help string> — this is the keyword string you want to match, bestie. lowercase letters ONLY, except for the acronym VLDB (she gets to be loud, it's her thing 👑). and if your string is more than a single word, wrap it in double quotes ("") or some other delimiter so it doesn't get split up and lost 💀
  • -help — prints the online help for this command. and like… every other valid option just gets ignored when you use it. she's got main character energy to the point of not hearing anyone else 🙈 no cap.

⭐ OUTPUT ⭐

The first line of a command's online help entry is the part that names it and briefly describes what it does. So this command goes ahead and shows you that first line for any vos command where the string you put in -topic is part of either the command name or that first line. basically a little sneak peek at everybody whose name or bio mentions your keyword 🫶

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

ok watch this — the command below shows you every vos command that's got the word lock in its name or its short description:

% vos apropos lock
lock: lock VLDB entry for a volume
unlock: release lock on VLDB entry for a volume
unlockvldb: unlock all the locked entries in the VLDB

look at that. three little entries. all about locks. we ate 🔥

👑 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 👑

None. zero. nada. you need absolutely nothing to run this, it's free, it's open to everyone, it's the people's command 💖✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

vos(1), vos_help(1)

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and that's the whole page bestie, tysm for reading 💖 this was the OpenAFS edition, dated 2026-07-27, and yeah it really does say VOS_APROPOS(1) up at the top of the original. slay, mwah 🎀🫶

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