8.76.3. Contents of Man-DB
Short Descriptions
Dumps the whatis database contents in human-readable form |
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Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string |
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Creates or updates the pre-formatted manual pages |
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Displays one-line summary information about a given manual page |
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Formats and displays the requested manual page |
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Converts manual pages to another encoding |
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Creates or updates the whatis database |
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Displays the contents of $MANPATH or (if $MANPATH is not set) a suitable search path based on the settings in man.conf and the user's environment |
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Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a separate word |
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Contains run-time support for man |
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Contains run-time support for man |