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# `bad-whatis-entry`

A manual page should start with a `NAME` section, which lists the program name and a brief description. The `NAME` section is used to generate a database that can be queried by commands like `apropos` and `whatis`. You are seeing this tag because `lexgrog` was unable to parse the `NAME` section.

Manual pages for multiple programs, functions, or files should list each separated by a comma and a space, followed by `-` and a common description.

Listed items may not contain any spaces. A manual page for a two-level command such as `fs listacl` must look like `fs_listacl` so the list is read correctly.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`
Renamed from: | `manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry`

## See also

- the lexgrog(1) manual page

- the groff_man(7) manual page

- the groff_mdoc(7) manual page

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag