catman
—
format cat pages from man pages
catman |
[-knpsw ] [-m
directory] [sections] |
catman |
[-knpsw ] [-M
directory] [sections] |
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Manual pages whose formatted versions are missing or out of date are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.
Currently does not handle hard links.