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CATMAN (8)

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catman - create the formatted files for the reference manual

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catman [-M path] [-T macro-package] [-pnw] [sections]

The catman command generates plain text versions of nroff(1) manual pages and a windex database for the apropos(1) and whatis(1) commands.

The catman command accepts the following options:

-p	Prints the steps to be done instead of actually executing them.
-n	Inhibits the creation of windex databases.
-w	Only the windex database is created, no preformatting is done.
-M path	Specifies a colon-separated list of manual directories. Usually, this is determined by the same method used in man(1).
-T macro-package
	Specifies the nroff macro package to be used instead of the default.

/etc/default/man
	Configuration, as described in man(1).

apropos(1), nroff(1), man(1), whatis(1), man(7)