MAKEMANDB(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      MAKEMANDB(8)

NAME

     makemandb -- parse the manual pages and build a search index over them

SYNOPSIS

     makemandb [-floQqv] [-C path]

DESCRIPTION

     The makemandb utility traverses the directories containing man pages, parses the manual pages with the help of libmandoc and builds an Sqlite
     database man.db to support full text searches.  It obtains the list of directories to traverse using the -path and -p options of man(1).

     It supports the following options:

     -C path
	     Use different man(1) configuration file than the default, /etc/man.conf.

     -f      Force rebuilding the index from scratch, pruning the existing one.

     -l      Limit the parsing to only the NAME section of the pages.  This option can be used to mimic the behavior of the classic apropos(1) and
	     also to substantially save disk space.

     -o      Use this option to optimize the index for speed and also to significantly reduce disk space usage.  This is a somewhat expensive
	     operation.

     -Q      Print only fatal error messages (i.e., when the database is left in an inconsistent state and needs manual intervention).

     -q      Print only warnings and error messages but no status updates.

     -v      Enable verbose output.  This prints the name of every file being parsed and a summary at the end of the index update.

     As the database file is stored under /var/db, root privileges are required to run makemandb.

   DATABASE SCHEMA
     The name of the FTS table is mandb and its schema is as follows:

	   section	  The section number of the page
	   name 	  The name of the page from the NAME section.
	   name_desc	  The one line description from the NAME section.
	   desc 	  The DESCRIPTION section.
	   lib		  The LIBRARY section.
	   return_vals	  The RETURN VALUES section.
	   env		  The ENVIRONMENT section.
	   files	  The FILES section.
	   exit_status	  The EXIT STATUS section.
	   diagnostics	  The DIAGNOSTICS section.
	   errors	  The ERRORS section.
	   md5_hash	  MD5 checksum of the man page.
	   machine	  The machine architecture (if any) for which the man page is relevant.

FILES

     /var/db/man.db  The Sqlite FTS database which contains an index of the manual pages.

SEE ALSO

     apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1), man.conf(5)

AUTHORS

     Abhinav Upadhyay

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								  August 29, 2012							       BSD