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| author | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-02-04 01:02:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-02-04 01:02:48 +0000 |
| commit | 59eca22be04d63218f1474cdf8d0736910c41c3d (patch) | |
| tree | 997a4bc46a3f12f4433477a20242069cd5aff7da /libexec | |
| parent | 209c779a9cd70325ae8b6643f91b2a89e0ca801f (diff) | |
Document new stuff...
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec')
| -rw-r--r-- | libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 b/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 index 9663c8e9554..cf65df4c9d5 100644 --- a/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 +++ b/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.5 1999/09/19 23:15:02 alex Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.6 2000/02/04 01:02:47 espie Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.2.2.1 1997/11/10 19:57:45 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -44,12 +44,15 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm makewhatis .Op Ar manpath ... +.Nm makewhatis +.Fl d Ar manpath +.Ar files ... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw .Xr man 1 pages and creates -a whatis.db database +a whatis.db database (that is, a subject index) for use in .Xr apropos 1 or with @@ -70,6 +73,22 @@ and are uncompressed before processing, unformatted man pages will be processed by .Xr getNAME 8 . +.Pp +If the +.Fl d +option is used, +.Nm +merges the description of +.Ar files +with an existing +.Pa whatis.db +database in +.Ar manpath . +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width whatis.db -compact +.It Pa whatis.db +index to man pages in directory. +.El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr man 1 , .Xr man.conf 5 , |