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diff --git a/usr.bin/catman/catman.1 b/usr.bin/catman/catman.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d019387 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/catman/catman.1 @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2002 John Rochester +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.\" Note: The date here should be updated whenever a non-trivial +.\" change is made to the manual page. +.Dd May 11, 2002 +.Dt MAKEWHATIS 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm catman +.Nd "preformat man pages" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl fnrvL +.Op Ar directories ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility preformats all the man pages in +.Ar directories +using the +.Ic "nroff -man" +command. +Directories may be separated by colons instead of spaces. +If no +.Ar directories +are specified, the contents of the +.Ev MANPATH +environment variable is used or if that is not set the default directory +.Pa /usr/share/man +is processed. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width ".Fl L" +.It Fl f +forces all man pages to be reformatted even if the corresponding cat page +is newer. +.It Fl L +Process only localized subdirectories corresponding to the locale specified +in the standard environment variables. +.It Fl n +prints out what would be done instead of performing any formatting. +.It Fl r +scans for and removes "junk" files that are neither man pages nor their +corresponding formatted cat pages. +.It Fl v +makes +.Nm +more verbose about what it is doing. +.El +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +.Bl -tag -width ".Ev MANPATH" -compact +.It Ev LC_ALL , LC_CTYPE , LANG +These variables control what subdirectories will be processed if the +.Fl L +option is used. +.It Ev MANPATH +Determines the set of directories to be processed if none are given on +the command line. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/man" -compact +.It Pa /usr/share/man +Default directory to process if the +.Ev MANPATH +environment variable is not set. +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Ex -std +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr man 1 , +.Xr makewhatis 1 , +.Xr nroff 1 +.Sh HISTORY +A previous version of the +.Nm +command appeared in +.Fx 2.1 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An John Rochester . |