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CATMAN(1) BSD 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. BSD March 12, 1995 BSD
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