accessdb
dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format
Synopsis
/usr/sbin/accessdb
[-hV] [<index-file>]
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description
accessdb
will output the data contained within a man-db database in a
human readable form. By default, it will dump the data from
/var/cache/man/index.<db-type>, where
<db-type> is dependent on the database library in
use.
Supplying an
argument to accessdb will override this default.
$mtime$ ->
"795987034"
$version$ -> "2.3.1"
apropos -> "1 1 795981542 A - - search the manual
page names and descriptions"
catman -> "8 8 795981544 A - - create or update the
pre-formatted manual pages"
man -> "1 1 795981542 A - - an interface to the
on-line reference manuals"
mandb -> "8 8 795981544 A - - create or update the
manual page index caches"
manpath -> " 1 5"
manpath~1 -> "1 1 795981542 A - - determine search
path for manual pages"
manpath~5 -> "5 5 795981543 A - - format of the
/etc/man_db.config file"
whatis -> "1 1 795981543 A - - search the manual
page names"
zsoelim -> "1 1 795981543 A - - satisfy .so requests
in roff input"
options
-h,
--help
Print a help message and
exit.
-V,
--version
Display version
information.
author
Wilf.
(G.Wilford[:at:]ee.surrey.ac[:dot:]uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco[:at:]debian[:dot:]org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson[:at:]debian[:dot:]org).