Man page 1 : fc-scan

fc-scan - scan font files or directories

fc-scan [ -Vh ] [ \fB [ -f format\fB ] [ --format \fIformat\fB ] ] [ --version ] [ --help ] \fBfile\fB...

fc-scan scans file(s) recursively and prints out font pattern for each face found.

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

• -f
      Format output according to the format specifier format.
• -V
      Show version of the program and exit.
• -h
      Show summary of options.
• \fBfile\fB
      Scan file recursively for font faces.

fc-scan returns error code 0 if at least one font was found or 1 otherwise.

fc-query(1) FcFileScan(3) FcDirScan(3) FcPatternFormat(3) fc-cat(1) fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1)

The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <>.