ACCESSDB

NAME

accessdb − dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format.

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/accessdb [−hV] [<index-file>]

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 DOT Wilford AT ee DOT surrey DOT ac DOT uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco AT debian DOT org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson AT debian DOT org).