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35 .Nd create a whatis.db database
37 .Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis
43 strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw
45 pages and creates a whatis.db database for use in
52 Man pages compressed with
56 are uncompressed before processing.
60 is provided multiple times, the resulting database file
61 is generated in the first directory specified, and contains
62 entries for all the directories.
70 and regenerates the whatis database files specified there.
71 Each database file is assumed to reside in the root of the appropriate
74 The options are as follows:
75 .Bl -tag -width XCXfileXX
81 format) as configuration file instead of the default,
84 Don't spawn child processes to generate the individual database files,
85 but do all the work synchronously in the foreground.
87 Print warnings about input files we don't like.
90 .Bl -tag -compact -width /etc/man.conf1
92 name of the whatis database
95 configuration file, used to get the location of the whatis databases when
97 is called without arguments
109 as a shell script written by
110 .An J.T. Conklin Aq jtc@NetBSD.org
112 .An Thorsten Frueauf Aq frueauf@ira.uka.de .
113 Further work was done by
117 .An Chris Demetriou .
125 .An Matthias Scheler Aq tron@NetBSD.org