1. NAME▲
accessdb - dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format.
2. SYNOPSIS ▲
/usr/sbin/accessdb [ -hV ] [ <index-file> ]
3. 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
"
4. OPTIONS ▲
-h, --help
Print a help message and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information.
5. AUTHOR ▲
Wilf. (
G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (
fpolacco@debian.org).
Colin Watson (
cjwatson@debian.org).