SYNOPSIS
catman [-dhV] [-M path] [section] ...
DESCRIPTION
catman is used to create an up to date set of pre-format
ted manual pages known as cat pages. Cat pages are gener
ally much faster to display than the original manual
pages, but require extra storage space. The decision to
support cat pages is that of the local administrator, who
must provide suitable directories to contain them.
The options available to catman are the manual page hier
archies and sections to pre-format. The default hierar
chies are those specified as system hierarchies in the
man_db configuration file, and the default sections are
either the colon-delimited contents of the environment
variable $MANSECT or the standard set compiled into man if
$MANSECT is undefined. Supplying catman with a set of
whitespace-delimited section names will override both of
the above.
catman makes use of the index database cache associated
with each hierarchy to determine which files need to be
formatted.
OPTIONS
-d, --debug
Print debugging information.
-M path, --manpath=path
Specify an alternate colon-delimited manual page
hierarchy search path. By default, this is all
paths indicated as system hierarchies in the man_db
configuration file.
-h, --help
Print a help message and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information.
ENVIRONMENT
MANSECT
If $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited
list of sections and it is used to determine which
manual sections to search and in what order.
MANPATH
If $MANPATH is set, its value is interpreted as the
colon-delimited manual page hierarchy search path
to use.
AUTHOR
Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
2.3.19 14 May 2001 catman(8)
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