10-25-2001
Re: Is it not there in Hp-Unix?
Quote:
Originally posted by sskb
I could not find this whatis in HP-Unix B 11. and can anybody tell me the difference between man and whatis ?
HP-UX picked up the old System V man command back in the early 80's and they don't seen to want to change. HP's man stuff is a little weird because of it. HP is missing both the
whatis and
apropos commands. But you can get them back with simple aliases:
alias whatis="man -f"
alias apropos="man -k"
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
catman
CATMAN(8) BSD System Manager's Manual CATMAN(8)
NAME
catman -- format cat pages from man pages
SYNOPSIS
catman [-knpsw] [-m directory] [sections]
catman [-knpsw] [-M directory] [sections]
DESCRIPTION
catman creates formatted versions of the on-line manual pages from their nroff(1) source. Manual pages whose formatted versions are missing
or out of date are regenerated. If manual pages are regenerated, catman also regenerates the whatis database.
The optional sections argument is one word, and contains the section numbers of all the sections to be checked. For example, if sections is
``13f8'', the manual pages in sections 1, 3f, and 8 will be checked and regenerated. If no sections argument is provided, catman will try to
operate on all of the known manual sections.
The options are as follows:
-k Ignore errors from nroff when building manpages.
-n Do not create the whatis database.
-p Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually execute them.
-s Perform work silently; do not echo commands as they are executed. This flag is ignored if -p is specified.
-w Only create the whatis database.
-m directory
Add directory to the set of directories to be updated.
-M directory
Update manual pages in directory.
SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1)
BUGS
Currently does not handle hard links.
BSD
July 30, 1993 BSD