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CATMAN(1)		FreeBSD	General	Commands Manual		     CATMAN(1)

NAME
     catman -- preformat man pages

SYNOPSIS
     catman [-f	| -force] [-h |	-help] [-L | -locale] [-p | -print]
	    [-r	| -remove] [-v | -verbose] [directories	...]

DESCRIPTION
     Catman format man pages to	ASCII.	It's like typing `man program' for all
     man pages in directories.	Directories is a list of man directories or
     subdirectories separated by spaces	or colons.  Use	/usr/share/man if no
     directories defined.

OPTIONS
     -f, -force
	     Force overwriting old cat pages.  Normally	only those pages will
	     be	formatted which	are not	up to date.  This option is a waste of
	     time, CPU and RAM.

     -h, -help
	     Print options and exit.

     -L, -locale
	     Sense locale environment variables	for possible localized man
	     subdirectories and	process	these entries only.

     -p, -print
	     Don't actually format man pages. Show what	would be done.

     -r, -remove
	     Remove garbage, e.	g. catpage without manpage, uncompressed cat-
	     page but a	compressed catpage exist, filenames with non-alphanu-
	     meric characters, uncompressed manpage but	a compressed manpage
	     exist.

     -v, -verbose
	     More warnings.

EXAMPLES
	   $ catman

     Format man	pages in /usr/share/man	if necessary.

	   $ catman $MANPATH

     Format all	your man pages if necessary.

	   $ catman -f /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/local/man/manl

     Force reformatting	of all man pages in /usr/local/man/man1	and
     /usr/local/man/manl.

	   $ catman -p /usr/X11/man

     Show only.

FILES
     /etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman  Starts this program

FEATURES
     Very fast if all man pages	already	formatted.  Does not support the -w
     option as some other systems do.  Use makewhatis(1) to rebuild the
     `whatis' database.

BUGS
     man(1) is a setuid	program.  Be careful that user `man' has write permis-
     sions to the catman directories.  Catman does not check for any `.so' in
     man page sources.	Use hard or symlinks to	avoid redundant	formatted man
     pages.

SEE ALSO
     makewhatis(1), man(1), manpath(1)

HISTORY
     This version of catman command appeared in	FreeBSD	2.1.

AUTHORS
     Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>, Berlin.

FreeBSD	11.1			March 12, 1995			  FreeBSD 11.1
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