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+.\"
+.\" Generated automatically from makewhatis.8.in by the
+.\" configure script.
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Ottavio G. Rizzo <rizzo@pluto.linux.it>
+.\"
+.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
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+.\"
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+.\" intermediate and printed output.
+.\"
+.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free
+.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139,
+.\" USA.
+.\" 
+.TH MAKEWHATIS 8 "September 19, 2005"
+.SH NAME
+makewhatis \- Create the whatis database
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BI "makewhatis [-u] [-v] [-w] [-s " sections " ] [-c [" catpath "]] [" manpath "]"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B makewhatis
+reads all the manual pages contained in the given
+.IR sections " of " manpath 
+or the preformatted pages contained in the given
+.IR sections " of " catpath .
+For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each line
+consists of the name of the page and a short description, separated
+by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the
+NAME section of the manual page.
+.LP
+Since other languages use a different term for the NAME section,
+.B makewhatis
+recognizes the equivalent terms in Czech, Italian, Finnish, French,
+German and Spanish.
+.LP
+If no
+.I manpath
+argument is given,
+.I /usr/man
+is assumed by default.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B -u
+Update database with new pages.
+.TP
+.B -v
+Verbose output
+.TP
+.B -w
+Use manpath obtained from `man --path`
+.TP 
+.BI -s " sections"
+Looks in the
+.I sections
+of
+.IR manpath " or " catpath .
+If the option is absent, the MANSECT env var will be used.  If it too
+is absent, the MANSECT setting in man.conf will be used.
+.TP 
+.BI -c " catpath"
+The preformatted manual pages located in
+.I catpath
+are scanned. If the argument is not provided, it is assumed to be the
+first existing directory between
+.IR /usr/man/preformat " and " /usr/man .
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.PP
+To rebuild only 
+.IR /usr/X11R6/man/whatis " and " /usr/local/man/whatis
+.IP 
+makewhatis /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man
+.PP
+To rebuild all the databases, including those of the Finnish, French
+and Italian translations
+.IP
+LANGUAGE=fi:fr:it makewhatis -w
+.SH BUGS
+.B makewhatis
+may not handle too well manual pages written with non-standard troff
+macros, such as the Tcl/Tk pages.
+.PP
+.B makewhatis
+does not work on preformatted translations.
+.SH AUTHOR
+John W. Eaton was the original author of 
+.BR "man" . 
+Zeyd M. Ben-Halim released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions 1.3 thru 1.5p.
+Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR apropos (1),
+.BR man (1),
+.BR whatis (1)