makewhat(1) [minix man page]

MAKEWHATIS(1)						      General Commands Manual						     MAKEWHATIS(1)

NAME

       makewhatis - build the whatis(5) database

SYNOPSIS

       makewhatis directory

DESCRIPTION

       Makewhatis  makes  the whatis(5) database in the given manual page directory.  This database is used by man(1) to map titles to manual page
       names and by whatis(1) to give one line descriptions.  See whatis(5) for a desciption of what a whatis database should look  like  and  the
       restrictions that are placed on the NAME sections so that makewhatis can make whatis lines out of the manual pages.

SEE ALSO

       whatis(5).

BUGS

       Removing only font and size changes from the NAME section is often not enough.

AUTHOR

       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

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MAKEWHATIS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     MAKEWHATIS(8)

NAME

       makewhatis - Create the whatis database

SYNOPSIS

       makewhatis [-u] [-v] [-w] [-s sections ] [-c [catpath]] [manpath]

DESCRIPTION

       makewhatis  reads all the manual pages contained in the given sections of manpath or the preformatted pages contained in the given sections
       of catpath.  For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each line consists of the name of the page and  a  short  description,
       separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the NAME section of the manual page.

       Since  other  languages	use  a different term for the NAME section, makewhatis recognizes the equivalent terms in Czech, Italian, Finnish,
       French, German and Spanish.

       If no manpath argument is given, /usr/man is assumed by default.

OPTIONS

       -u     Update database with new pages.

       -v     Verbose output

       -w     Use manpath obtained from `man --path`

       -s sections
	      Looks in the sections of manpath or catpath.  If the option is absent, its value is assumed to be '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 n l'

       -c catpath
	      The preformatted manual pages located in catpath are scanned. If the argument is not provided, it is assumed to be the first  exist-
	      ing directory between /usr/man/preformat and /usr/man.

EXAMPLES

       To rebuild only /usr/X11R6/man/whatis and /usr/local/man/whatis

	      makewhatis /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man

       To rebuild all the databases, including those of the Finnish, French and Italian translations

	      LANGUAGE=fi:fr:it makewhatis -w

BUGS

       makewhatis may not handle too well manual pages written with non-standard troff macros, such as the Tcl/Tk pages.

       makewhatis does not work on preformatted translations.

SEE ALSO

       apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1)

								  22 January 1999						     MAKEWHATIS(8)