ACCESSDB(8) Manual pager utils ACCESSDB(8)
NAME
accessdb - dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/accessdb [-d?V] [<index-file>]
DESCRIPTION
accessdb will output the data contained within a man-db database in a human readable form. By default, it
will dump the data from /var/cache/man/index.<db-type>, where <db-type> is dependent on the database library
in use.
Supplying an argument to accessdb will override this default.
$mtime$ -> "795987034"
$version$ -> "2.3.1"
apropos -> "1 1 795981542 A - - search the manual page names and descriptions"
catman -> "8 8 795981544 A - - create or update the pre-formatted manual pages"
man -> "1 1 795981542 A - - an interface to the on-line reference manuals"
mandb -> "8 8 795981544 A - - create or update the manual page index caches"
manpath -> " 1 5"
manpath~1 -> "1 1 795981542 A - - determine search path for manual pages"
manpath~5 -> "5 5 795981543 A - - format of the /etc/man_db.config file"
whatis -> "1 1 795981543 A - - search the manual page names"
zsoelim -> "1 1 795981543 A - - satisfy .so requests in roff input"
OPTIONS
-d, --debug
Print debugging information.
-?, --help
Print a help message and exit.
--usage
Print a short usage message and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information.
AUTHOR
Wilf. ([email protected]).
Fabrizio Polacco ([email protected]).
Colin Watson ([email protected]).
2.6.3 2012-09-17 ACCESSDB(8)
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