ACCESSDB(8) Manual pager utils ACCESSDB(8)NAME
accessdb - dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/accessdb [-hV] [<index-file>]
DESCRIPTION
accessdb will output the data contained within a man-db database in a human readable form. By default, it will dump the data from
/var/cache/man/index.<db-type>, where <db-type> is dependent on the database library in use.
Supplying an argument to accessdb will override this default.
$mtime$ -> "795987034"
$version$ -> "2.3.1"
apropos -> "1 1 795981542 A - - search the manual page names and descriptions"
catman -> "8 8 795981544 A - - create or update the pre-formatted manual pages"
man -> "1 1 795981542 A - - an interface to the on-line reference manuals"
mandb -> "8 8 795981544 A - - create or update the manual page index caches"
manpath -> " 1 5"
manpath~1 -> "1 1 795981542 A - - determine search path for manual pages"
manpath~5 -> "5 5 795981543 A - - format of the /etc/man_db.config file"
whatis -> "1 1 795981543 A - - search the manual page names"
zsoelim -> "1 1 795981543 A - - satisfy .so requests in roff input"
OPTIONS -h, --help
Print a help message and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information.
AUTHOR
Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
2.6.2 2012-06-18 ACCESSDB(8)
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CATMAN(8) Manual pager utils CATMAN(8)NAME
catman - create or update the pre-formatted manual pages
SYNOPSIS
catman [-dhV] [-M path] [-C file] [section] ...
DESCRIPTION
catman is used to create an up to date set of pre-formatted manual pages known as cat pages. Cat pages are generally much faster to dis-
play than the original manual pages, but require extra storage space. The decision to support cat pages is that of the local administra-
tor, who must provide suitable directories to contain them.
The options available to catman are the manual page hierarchies and sections to pre-format. The default hierarchies are those specified as
system hierarchies in the man-db configuration file, and the default sections are either the colon-delimited contents of the environment
variable $MANSECT or the standard set compiled into man if $MANSECT is undefined. Supplying catman with a set of whitespace-delimited sec-
tion names will override both of the above.
catman makes use of the index database cache associated with each hierarchy to determine which files need to be formatted.
OPTIONS -d, --debug
Print debugging information.
-M path, --manpath=path
Specify an alternate colon-delimited manual page hierarchy search path. By default, this is all paths indicated as system hierar-
chies in the man-db configuration file.
-C file, --config-file=file
Use this user configuration file rather than the default of ~/.manpath.
-h, --help
Print a help message and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information.
ENVIRONMENT
MANSECT
If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections and it is used to determine which manual sections to search and
in what order.
MANPATH
If $MANPATH is set, its value is interpreted as the colon-delimited manual page hierarchy search path to use.
FILES
/etc/manpath.config
man-db configuration file.
/usr/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
A traditional global index database cache.
/var/catman/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
An alternate or FSSTND compliant global index database cache.
SEE ALSO man(1), manpath(5), mandb(8).
AUTHOR
Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
2.6.0.2 2011-04-13 CATMAN(8)