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MAKEWHATIS(8)           NetBSD System Manager's Manual           MAKEWHATIS(8)


NAME

     makewhatis - create a whatis.db database


SYNOPSIS

     /usr/libexec/makewhatis [manpath ...]


DESCRIPTION

     makewhatis strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw man(1) pages and
     creates a whatis.db database for use in apropos(1) or with man(1)'s -k
     option.  If manpath is unspecified, makewhatis by default creates a
     database for /usr/share/man.  Man pages compressed with compress(1) and
     gzip(1) are uncompressed before processing.


BUGS

     makewhatis should find its search paths using /etc/man.conf


SEE ALSO

     man(1), man.conf(5)


AUTHOR

     Matthias Scheler <tron@netbsd.org>

                              September 25, 1999                             1