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.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Devin Reade <gdr@myrias.com>. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.TH CATMAN 8 "System Administration" "24 July 95" "Version 1.0"
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.SH NAME
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catman \- format cat pages from man pages
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR catman
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[
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.B -pvV
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] [[
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.BI -M path
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] | [
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.BI -m path
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]] [
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.IR section " ..."
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]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.BR catman
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creates formatted versions of the on-line manual pages from their
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.BR nroff (1)
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or
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.BR aroff (1)
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source.
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Manual pages whose formatted versions are missing or out of date are
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regenerated.
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.LP
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If
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.IR section
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is specified, then
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.BR catman
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will only created formatted manual pages for the specified
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.IR section (s).
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.LP
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Manual pages that are
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.BR nroff (1)
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source and are compressed with either
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.BR compress (1),
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.BR freeze (1),
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or
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.BR gzip (1)
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are recognised provided that they have the suffixes
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.BR ".Z" ,
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.BR ".F" ,
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and
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.BR ".gz" ,
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respectively. Manual page names, including suffixes, are case sensitive.
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.LP
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Preformatted manual pages will be created in
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.BI cat ?
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only if that subdirectory exists.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.IP \fB-p\fP
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Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually
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execute them.
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.IP "\fB-M\fR \fIpath\fR"
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Set
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.I path
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to be the list of paths for which manual pages will be updated.
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If not set, the value of
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.BR MANPATH ,
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.BR USRMAN ,
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or
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.BR MANDIR
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will be used instead. Multiple directories may be specified by
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separating them either by colons or by spaces. In the latter case,
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be sure to quote
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.I path
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from the shell.
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.IP "\fB-m\fR \fIpath\fR"
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Append
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.I path
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on to the list of paths for which manual pages will be updated.
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.IP \fB-V\fR
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Display version information and exit.
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.IP \fB-v\fR
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Verbose. Show processing information.
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.SH BUGS
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Please report any bugs to Devin Reade, <gdr@myrias.ab.ca>.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR apropos (1),
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.BR man (1),
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.BR whatis (1),
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.BR gzip (1),
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.BR compress (1),
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.BR freeze (1),
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.BR makewhatis (8).
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.SH WARNING
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.BR catman
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will unlink any out-of-date files in the
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.BI cat ?
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subdirectories. The files that would be unlinked are listed when
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.BR catman
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is invoked with the
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.BR -p
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option.
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