NAME
catman
- format cat pages from man pages
SYNOPSIS
catman
[-knpsw]
[-m directory]
[sections]
catman
[-knpsw]
[-M directory]
[sections]
DESCRIPTION
catman
creates formatted versions of the on-line manual pages from their
nroff(1)
source.
Manual pages whose formatted versions are missing or out of date are
regenerated.
If manual pages are regenerated,
catman
also regenerates the
whatis
database.
The optional
sections
argument is one word, and contains the section numbers of all the
sections to be checked. For example, if
sections
is ``13f8'', the
manual pages in sections 1, 3f, and 8 will be checked and regenerated.
If no
sections
argument is provided,
catman
will try to operate on all of the known manual sections.
The options are as follows:
- -k
-
Ignore errors from nroff when building manpages.
- -n
-
Do not create the
whatis
database.
- -p
-
Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually
execute them.
- -s
-
Perform work silently; do not echo commands as they are executed. This
flag is ignored if
-p
is specified.
- -w
-
Only create the
whatis
database.
- -m directory
-
Add
directory
to the set of directories to be updated.
- -M directory
-
Update manual pages in
directory.
SEE ALSO
apropos(1),
man(1),
whatis(1)
BUGS
Currently does not handle hard links.