JMAKEWHATIS(1) BSD General Commands Manual JMAKEWHATIS(1)NAMEjmakewhatis — create Japanese or original (English) whatis database
SYNOPSISjmakewhatis [-a | -append] [-h | -help] [-i | -indent column]
[-n | -name name] [-o | -outfile file] [-v | -verbose]
[directories ...]
DESCRIPTION
Jmakewhatis extracts the name and a short description from unformatted
manpages and creates the japanese(whatis) 1 database. Jmakewhatis can
read gzip'ed manpages. Directory names a directory containing manpage
subdirectories (named man.+). Colons are treated as spaces, hence
jmakewhatis $MANPATH or jmakewhatis `manpath` are allowed. You have to
set the environment variable LC_CTYPE (or LANG) to ja_JP.EUC if directory
contains Japanese manpage subdirectories.
OPTIONS-a, -append
Append mode. Don't delete old entries in whatis database. Note:
the new database will be sorted without repeated lines and
jmakewhatis does not check if old entries are valid.
-h, -help
Print options and exit.
-i, -indent column
Justify description strings to column (default 24).
-n, -name name
Use name instead of whatis.
-o, -outfile file
Write all output to file instead of dirname/whatis.
-v, -verbose
Issue more warnings (to stderr). For every parsed man page write
a single char: ‘.’ for an uncompressed page, ‘*’ for a compressed
page, and ‘+’ for a link.
EXAMPLESjmakewhatis $MANPATH
Create whatis database for all directories in your $MANPATH.
jmakewhatis-outfile /tmp/mywhatis /usr/share/man/ja $HOME/man
Create whatis database /tmp/mywhatis. Traverse directories
/usr/share/man/ja and $HOME/man. Don't create /usr/share/man/ja/whatis
or $HOME/man/whatis.
jmakewhatis-name windex $HOME/man
Create whatis database windex instead of whatis. May be useful for
Solaris.
SEE ALSOjapropos(1), jcatman(1), jmakewhatis.local(1), jman(1), jmanpath(1),
jwhatis(1), sort(1), uniq(1).
HISTORY
The original version of makewhatis command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.
Japanized jmakewhatis command appeared in ports/packages collection of
FreeBSD 2.2.
AUTHORS
Wolfram Schneider, Berlin.
JAPANIZATION
KUMANO, Tadashi
FreeBSD June 11, 2001 FreeBSD
