update-mime-database
a program to build the Shared MIME-Info database cache
Synopsis
update-mime-database
-h | -v | [ -V ]
MIME-DIR
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description
update-mime-database
is a program which is responsible for updating the shared
mime-info cache according to the system described in the
Shared
MIME-Info Database specification (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec) from the X Desktop
Group.
options
-h
Print out a command summary.
-v
Print out the version information.
-V
Be verbose.
arguments
MIME-DIR
This is the directory for which update-mime-database
should rebuild the cache. Mandatory if none of the options is
provided.
licence
Copyright (C) 2002 Thomas Leonard.
You may redistribute copies of update-mime-database under
the terms of the GNU General Public License.
author
Filip Van
Raemdonck (mechanix[:at:]debian[:dot:]org) wrote this manpage for the
Debian GNU/Linux project, but it may be used by others.