1.\" $NetBSD: makewhatis.8,v 1.6 2002/01/15 02:24:15 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Robert Dobbs <banshee@gabriella.resort.com>. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD 20.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its 22.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 23.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 26.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 27.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 28.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 29.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 30.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 31.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 32.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 33.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 34.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 35.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.Dd September 25, 1999 38.Dt MAKEWHATIS 8 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm makewhatis 41.Nd create a whatis.db database 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis 44.Op Ar manpath ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Nm 47strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw 48.Xr man 1 49pages and creates 50a whatis.db database 51for use in 52.Xr apropos 1 53or with 54.Xr man 1 's 55.Fl k 56option. 57If 58.Ar manpath 59is unspecified, 60.Nm 61by default creates a database for /usr/share/man. 62Man pages compressed with 63.Xr compress 1 64and 65.Xr gzip 1 66are uncompressed before processing. 67.Sh SEE ALSO 68.Xr man 1 , 69.Xr man.conf 5 70.Sh AUTHORS 71.An Matthias Scheler Aq tron@netbsd.org 72.Sh BUGS 73.Nm 74should find its search paths using 75.Pa /etc/man.conf . 76