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.\" Copyright (c) 2002 John Rochester
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\" Note: The date here should be updated whenever a non-trivial
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.\" change is made to the manual page.
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.Dd May 12, 2002
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.Dt MAKEWHATIS 1
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.Os
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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
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.Op Fl i Ar column
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.Op Fl n Ar name
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.Op Fl o Ar file
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.Op Fl v
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.Op Fl L
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.Op Ar directories ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility collects the names and short descriptions from all the unformatted
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man pages in the
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.Ar directories
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and puts them into a file used by the
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.Xr whatis 1
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and
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.Xr apropos 1
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commands.
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Directories may be separated by colons instead of spaces.
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If no
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.Ar directories
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are specified, the contents of the
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.Ev MANPATH
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environment variable will be used, or if that is not set the default directory
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.Pa /usr/share/man
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will be processed.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Fl i Ar column"
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.It Fl a
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Appends to the output file(s) instead of replacing them. The output
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will be sorted with duplicate lines removed, but may have obsolete
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entries.
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.It Fl i Ar column
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Indents the description by
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.Ar column
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characters. The default value is 24.
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.It Fl n Ar name
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Uses
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.Ar name
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instead of
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.Pa whatis .
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.It Fl o Ar file
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Outputs all lines to the
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.Ar file
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instead of
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.Pa */whatis .
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.It Fl v
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Makes
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.Nm
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more verbose about what it is doing.
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.It Fl L
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Process only localized subdirectories corresponding to the locale specified
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in the standard environment variables.
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.El
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.Bl -tag -width ".Ev MANPATH"
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.It Ev LC_ALL , LC_CTYPE , LANG
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These variables control what subdirectories will be processed if the
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.Fl L
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option is used.
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.It Ev MACHINE
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If set, its value is used to override the current
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machine type when searching machine specific subdirectories.
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.It Ev MANPATH
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Determines the set of directories to be processed if none are given on
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the command line.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/man" -compact
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.It Pa /usr/share/man
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Default directory to process if the
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.Ev MANPATH
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environment variable is not set.
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.It Pa */man/whatis
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The default output file.
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.El
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Ex -std
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr whatis 1 ,
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.Xr apropos 1
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.Sh HISTORY
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A previous version of the
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Fx 2.1 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An John Rochester .
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