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This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. Berlin.
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.\" 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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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd Jan, 12, 1995
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.Dt MAKEWHATIS 1
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.Os FreeBSD 2.1
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm makewhatis
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.Nd create whatis database
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl a | Fl append
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.Op Fl h | Fl help
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.Op Fl i | Fl indent Ar column
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.Op Fl n | Fl name Ar name
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.Op Fl o | Fl outfile Ar file
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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
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extracts the name and a short description from unformatted manpages
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and creates the
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.Xr whatis 1
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database.
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.Nm
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can read gzip'ed manpages.
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.Ar Directory
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names a directory containing manpage subdirectories
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.Pq named Pa man.+ .
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Colons are treated as spaces, hence
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.Ic makewhatis $MANPATH
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or
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.Ic makewhatis `manpath`
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are allowed.
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.Sh OPTIONS
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl a , Fl append
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Append mode. Don't delete old entries in whatis database. Note:
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the new database will be sorted without repeated lines and
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.Nm
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does not check if old entries are valid.
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.It Fl h , Fl help
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Print options and exit.
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.It Fl i , Fl indent Ar column
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Justify description strings to
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.Ar column Pq default 24 .
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.It Fl n , Fl name Ar name
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Use
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.Ar name
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instead of
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.Pa whatis Ns .
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.It Fl o , Fl outfile Ar file
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Write all output to
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.Ar file
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instead of
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.Pa dirname/whatis Ns .
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.It Fl v, Fl verbose
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Issue more warnings
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.Pq to stderr .
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For every parsed man page write a single char:
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.Ql \&.
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for an uncompressed page,
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.Ql *
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for a compressed page, and
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.Ql +
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for a link.
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Pp
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.Ic makewhatis $MANPATH
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.Pp
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Create whatis database for all directories in your
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.Pa $MANPATH Ns .
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.Pp
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.Ic makewhatis -outfile /tmp/mywhatis /usr/local/man $HOME/man
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.Pp
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Create whatis database
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.Pa /tmp/mywhatis .
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Traverse directories
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.Pa /usr/local/man
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and
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.Pa $HOME/man Ns .
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Don't create
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.Pa /usr/local/man/whatis
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or
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.Pa $HOME/man/whatis Ns .
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.Pp
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.Ic makewhatis -name windex $HOME/man
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.Pp
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Create whatis database
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.Pa windex
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instead of
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.Pa whatis Ns .
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May be useful for Solaris.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwdxx -compact
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.It Pa */man/whatis
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whatis database
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.It Pa /etc/weekly
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run
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.Nm makewhatis.local
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every week
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr apropos 1 ,
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.Xr catman 1 ,
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.Xr getNAME 1 ,
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.Xr man 1 ,
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.Xr manpath 1 ,
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.Xr sort 1 ,
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.Xr uniq 1 ,
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.Xr whatis 1 ,
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.Xr makewhatis.local 8 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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This
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Fx 2.1 .
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.Sh AUTHOR
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Wolfram Schneider, Berlin.
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