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130 lines
3.8 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.8 2002/03/08 22:10:00 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" by Robert Dobbs <banshee@gabriella.resort.com>.
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.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
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.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its
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.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
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.\" from this software without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.Dd March 8, 2002
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.Dt MAKEWHATIS 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm makewhatis
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.Nd create a whatis.db database
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis
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.Op Fl C Ar file
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.Op Fl f
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.Op Ar manpath ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw
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.Xr man 1
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pages and creates
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a whatis.db database
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for use in
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.Xr apropos 1 ,
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.Xr whatis 1
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or with
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.Xr man 1 Ns 's
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.Fl k
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option.
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Man pages compressed with
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.Xr compress 1
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and
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.Xr gzip 1
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are uncompressed before processing.
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.Pp
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When
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.Ar manpath
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is provided multiple times, the resulting database file
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is generated in the first directory specified, and contains
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entries for all the directories.
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.Pp
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If
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.Ar manpath
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is not provided,
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.Nm
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parses
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.Pa /etc/man.conf
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and regenerates the whatis database files specified there.
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Each database file is assumed to reside in the root of the appropriate
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man page hierarchy.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width flag
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.It Fl C Ar file
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Use
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.Ar file
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(in
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.Xr man.conf 5
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format) as configuration file instead of the default,
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.Pa /etc/man.conf .
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.It Fl f
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Don't spawn child processes to generate the individual database files,
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but do all the work synchronously in the foreground.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -compact -width /etc/man.conf1
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.It Pa whatis.db
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name of the whatis database
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.It Pa /etc/man.conf
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.Xr man 1
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configuration file, used to get the location of the whatis databases when
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.Nm
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is called without arguments
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr apropos 1 ,
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.Xr man 1 ,
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.Xr whatis 1 ,
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.Xr man.conf 5
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm
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first appeared in
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.Nx 1.0 ,
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as a shell script written by
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.An J.T. Conklin Aq jtc@netbsd.org
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and
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.An Thorsten Frueauf Aq frueauf@ira.uka.de .
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Further work was done by
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Matthew Green, Luke Mewburn and
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Chris Demetriou.
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.Pp
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Matthias Scheler
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has reimplemented
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.Nm
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in C in
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.Nx 1.5 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Matthias Scheler Aq tron@netbsd.org
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