minix/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8
Lionel Sambuc 84d9c625bf Synchronize on NetBSD-CVS (2013/12/1 12:00:00 UTC)
- Fix for possible unset uid/gid in toproto
 - Fix for default mtree style
 - Update libelf
 - Importing libexecinfo
 - Resynchronize GCC, mpc, gmp, mpfr
 - build.sh: Replace params with show-params.
     This has been done as the make target has been renamed in the same
     way, while a new target named params has been added. This new
     target generates a file containing all the parameters, instead of
     printing it on the console.
 - Update test48 with new etc/services (Fix by Ben Gras <ben@minix3.org)
     get getservbyport() out of the inner loop

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2014-07-28 17:05:06 +02:00

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.Dd April 3, 2005
.Dt MAKEWHATIS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm makewhatis
.Nd create a whatis.db database
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis
.Op Fl fw
.Op Fl C Ar file
.Op Ar manpath ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw
.Xr man 1
pages and creates a whatis.db database for use in
.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr whatis 1 ,
or with
.Xr man 1 Ns 's
.Fl k
option.
Man pages compressed with
.Xr compress 1
and
.Xr gzip 1
are uncompressed before processing.
.Pp
When
.Ar manpath
is provided multiple times, the resulting database file
is generated in the first directory specified, and contains
entries for all the directories.
.Pp
If
.Ar manpath
is not provided,
.Nm
parses
.Pa /etc/man.conf
and regenerates the whatis database files specified there.
Each database file is assumed to reside in the root of the appropriate
man page hierarchy.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width XCXfileXX
.It Fl C Ar file
Use
.Ar file
(in
.Xr man.conf 5
format) as configuration file instead of the default,
.Pa /etc/man.conf .
.It Fl f
Don't spawn child processes to generate the individual database files,
but do all the work synchronously in the foreground.
.It Fl w
Print warnings about input files we don't like.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -compact -width /etc/man.conf1
.It Pa whatis.db
name of the whatis database
.It Pa /etc/man.conf
.Xr man 1
configuration file, used to get the location of the whatis databases when
.Nm
is called without arguments
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr man 1 ,
.Xr whatis 1 ,
.Xr man.conf 5
.Sh HISTORY
.An -nosplit
.Nm
first appeared in
.Nx 1.0 ,
as a shell script written by
.An J.T. Conklin Aq Mt jtc@NetBSD.org
and
.An Thorsten Frueauf Aq Mt frueauf@ira.uka.de .
Further work was done by
.An Matthew Green ,
.An Luke Mewburn ,
and
.An Chris Demetriou .
.Pp
.An Matthias Scheler
has reimplemented
.Nm
in C in
.Nx 1.5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Matthias Scheler Aq Mt tron@NetBSD.org