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3.9 KiB
Groff
154 lines
3.9 KiB
Groff
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.\" (c) Copyright 1995 Wolfram Schneider. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" This product includes software developed by Wolfram Schneider
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.\" /usr/bin/catman - preformat man pages
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.\"
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.\" E-mail: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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.\"
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.\" $Id: catman.1,v 1.4 1995/03/31 04:00:17 joerg Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd Mar 12, 1995
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.Dt CATMAN 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm catman
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.Nd preformat man pages
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm catman
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.Op Fl f | Fl force
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.Op Fl h | Fl help
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.Op Fl p | Fl print
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.Op Fl r | Fl remove
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.Op Fl v | Fl verbose
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.Op Ar directories...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Catman
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format man pages to ASCII. It's like typing
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.Sq man program
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for all man pages in
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.Ar directories .
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.Ar Directories
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is a list of man directories or subdirectories separated
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by spaces or colons.
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Use
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.Ar /usr/share/man
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if no
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.Ar directories
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defined.
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.Sh OPTIONS
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl f , Fl force
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Force overwriting old cat pages. Normally only those pages will be formatted
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which are not up to date. This option is a waste of time, CPU and RAM.
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.It Fl h , Fl help
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Print options and exit.
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.It Fl p , Fl print
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Don't actually format man pages. Show what would be done.
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.It Fl r , Fl remove
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Remove garbage, e.\& g. catpage without manpage, uncompressed catpage but
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a compressed catpage exist, filenames with non-alphanumeric
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characters, uncompressed manpage but a compressed manpage exist.
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.It Fl v , Fl verbose
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More warnings.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Pp
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.Dl $ catman
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.Pp
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Format man pages in
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.Ar /usr/share/man
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if neccessary.
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.Pp
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.Dl $ catman $MANPATH
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.Pp
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Format all your man pages if neccessary.
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.Pp
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.Dl $ catman -f /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/local/man/manl
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.Pp
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Force reformatting of all man pages in
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.Pa /usr/local/man/man1
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and
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.Pa /usr/local/man/manl .
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.Pp
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.Dl $ catman -p /usr/X11/man
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.Pp
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Show only.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwdxx -compact
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.Pa /etc/weekly :
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start this program
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.Po
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or
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.Pa /etc/daily
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.Pc
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.El
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.Sh FEATURES
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Very fast if all man pages already formatted.
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.Sh BUGS
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.Xr man 1
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is a setuid program. Be careful that user
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.Sq man
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has write permissions to the catman directories.
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.Nm Catman
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does not check for any
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.Sq .so
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in man page sources. Use hard or symlinks
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to avoid redundant formatted man pages.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr man 1 ,
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.Xr manpath 1 ,
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.Xr makewhatis 1 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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This version of
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.Nm catman
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command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1
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.Sh AUTHOR
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Wolfram Schneider
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.Aq wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de ,
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Germany.
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