PTX(1)								   User Commands							    PTX(1)

NAME

       ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents

SYNOPSIS

       ptx [OPTION]... [INPUT]...   (without -G)
       ptx -G [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

DESCRIPTION

       Output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input files.

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -A, --auto-reference
	      output automatically generated references

       -G, --traditional
	      behave more like System V 'ptx'

       -F, --flag-truncation=STRING
	      use STRING for flagging line truncations.  The default is '/'

       -M, --macro-name=STRING
	      macro name to use instead of 'xx'

       -O, --format=roff
	      generate output as roff directives

       -R, --right-side-refs
	      put references at right, not counted in -w

       -S, --sentence-regexp=REGEXP
	      for end of lines or end of sentences

       -T, --format=tex
	      generate output as TeX directives

       -W, --word-regexp=REGEXP
	      use REGEXP to match each keyword

       -b, --break-file=FILE
	      word break characters in this FILE

       -f, --ignore-case
	      fold lower case to upper case for sorting

       -g, --gap-size=NUMBER
	      gap size in columns between output fields

       -i, --ignore-file=FILE
	      read ignore word list from FILE

       -o, --only-file=FILE
	      read only word list from this FILE

       -r, --references
	      first field of each line is a reference

       -t, --typeset-mode		- not implemented -

       -w, --width=NUMBER
	      output width in columns, reference excluded

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by F. Pinard.

REPORTING BUGS

       GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report ptx translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ptx invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.28						   January 2018 							    PTX(1)