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 .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>  .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
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 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any  .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
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 .Nd index UNIX manuals  .Nd index UNIX manuals
 .Sh SYNOPSIS  .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm  .Nm
 .Op Fl ruv  .Op Fl anvW
 .Op Fl d Ar dir  .Op Fl C Ar file
 .Ar  .Nm
   .Op Fl anvW
   .Ar dir ...
   .Nm
   .Op Fl nvW
   .Fl d Ar dir
   .Op Ar
   .Nm
   .Op Fl nvW
   .Fl u Ar dir
   .Op Ar
   .Nm
   .Fl t Ar
 .Sh DESCRIPTION  .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The  The
 .Nm  .Nm
 utility extracts keywords from  utility extracts keywords from
 .Ux  .Ux
 manuals and indexes them for fast retrieval.  manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by
 The arguments are as follows:  .Xr apropos 1 ,
 .Bl -tag -width Ds  .Xr whatis 1 ,
 .It Fl d Ar dir  and
 The directory into which to write the keyword and index databases.  .Xr man 1 .
 .It Ar  
 Read input from zero or more files in  
 .Xr mdoc 7  
 or  
 .Xr man 7  
 .Ux  
 manual format.  
 .It Fl r  
 Remove entries.  
 This will remove the index and keyword references.  
 If the record is not found, it is ignored.  
 .It Fl u  
 Update the record.  
 This will first remove the record (as in  
 .Fl r )  
 then re-add it.  
 .It Fl v  
 Verbose output.  
 If specified once, prints the name of each indexed file.  
 If twice, prints keywords for each file.  
 .El  
 .Pp  .Pp
 By default,  By default,
 .Nm  .Nm
 constructs a new  creates a database in each
 .Sx Index Database  .Ar dir
   using the files
   .Sm off
   .Sy man Ar section Li /
   .Op Ar arch Li /
   .Ar title . section
   .Sm on
 and  and
 .Sx Keyword Database  .Sm off
 in the current working directory.  .Sy cat Ar section Li /
 Existing databases are truncated.  .Op Ar arch Li /
   .Ar title . Sy 0
   .Sm on
   in that directory.
   Existing databases are replaced.
   If
   .Ar dir
   is not provided,
   .Nm
   uses the default paths stipulated by
   .Xr manpath 1 ,
   or
   .Xr man.conf 5 .
 .Pp  .Pp
 If fatal parse errors are encountered, the offending file is printed to  The arguments are as follows:
 stderr, omitted from the index, and the parse continues with the next  .Bl -tag -width "-C file"
 input file.  .It Fl a
 .Ss Index Database  Use all directories and files found below
 The index database,  .Ar dir ... .
 .Pa mandoc.index ,  .It Fl C Ar file
 is a  Specify an alternative configuration
 .Xr recno 3  .Ar file
 database with record values consisting of  in
 .Pp  .Xr man.conf 5
 .Bl -enum -compact  format.
 .It  .It Fl d Ar dir
 a nil-terminated filename,  Merge (remove and re-add)
 .It  .Ar
 a nil-terminated manual section,  to the database in
 .It  .Ar dir .
 a nil-terminated manual title,  .It Fl n
 .It  Do not create or modify any database;
 a nil-terminated architecture  scan and parse only.
 .Pq this is not often available  .It Fl t Ar
 .It  Check the given
 and a nil-terminated description.  .Ar files
   for potential problems.
   Implies
   .Fl a ,
   .Fl n ,
   and
   .Fl W .
   All diagnostic messages are printed to the standard output;
   the standard error output is not used.
   .It Fl u Ar dir
   Remove
   .Ar
   from the database in
   .Ar dir .
   .It Fl v
   Display all files added or removed to the index.
   .It Fl W
   Print warnings about potential problems with manual pages
   to the standard error output.
 .El  .El
 .Pp  .Pp
 Both the manual section and description may be zero-length.  If fatal parse errors are encountered while parsing, the offending file
 Entries are sequentially-numbered, but the filenames are unordered.  is printed to stderr, omitted from the index, and the parse continues
 .Ss Keyword Database  with the next input file.
 The keyword database,  
 .Pa mandoc.db ,  
 is a  
 .Xr btree 3  
 database of nil-terminated keywords (record length is non-zero string  
 length plus one) mapping to a 8-byte binary field consisting of the  
 keyword type and source  
 .Sx Index Database  
 record number.  
 The type, a 32-bit bit-mask in host order, consists of the following  
 fields:  
 .Pp  
 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact  
 .It Li 0x01  
 The name of a manual page as given in the NAME section.  
 .It Li 0x02  
 A function prototype name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.  
 .It Li 0x04  
 A utility name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.  
 .It Li 0x08  
 An include file as given in the SYNOPSIS section.  
 .It Li 0x10  
 A variable name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.  
 .It Li 0x20  
 A standard as given in the STANDARDS section.  
 .It Li 0x40  
 An author as given in the AUTHORS section.  
 .It Li 0x80  
 A configuration as given in the SYNOPSIS section.  
 .It Li 0x100  
 Free-form descriptive text as given in the NAME section.  
 .It Li 0x200  
 Cross-links between manuals.  
 Listed as the link name, then a period, then the link section.  
 If the link has no section, the period terminates the string.  
 .It Li 0x400  
 Path reference as given in the FILES section.  
 .It Li 0x800  
 Environment variable as given in the ENVIRONMENT section.  
 .It Li 0x1000  
 Error codes as given in the ERRORS section.  
 .El  
 .Pp  
 The last four bytes are a host-ordered record number within the  
 .Sx Index Database .  
 .Pp  
 The  
 .Nm  
 utility is  
 .Ud  
 .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES  
 The time to construct a new database pair grows linearly with the  
 number of keywords in the input.  
 However, removing or updating entries with  
 .Fl r  
 or  
 .Fl u ,  
 respectively, grows as a multiple of the index length and input size.  
 .Sh FILES  .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width Ds  .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Pa mandoc.db  .It Pa mandoc.db
 A  A database of manpages relative to the directory of the file.
 .Xr btree 3  This file is portable across architectures and systems, so long as the
 keyword database mapping keywords to a type and file reference in  manpage hierarchy it indexes does not change.
 .Pa mandoc.index .  .It Pa mandoc.db~
 .It Pa mandoc.index  A temporary database used during scanning and parsing.
 A  
 .Xr recno 3  
 database of indexed file-names.  
 .El  .El
 .Sh EXIT STATUS  .Sh EXIT STATUS
 The  .Ex -std
 .Nm  
 utility exits with one of the following values:  
 .Pp  
 .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact  
 .It 0  
 No errors occurred.  
 .It 5  
 Invalid command line arguments were specified.  
 No input files have been read.  
 .It 6  
 An operating system error occurred, for example memory exhaustion or an  
 error accessing input files.  
 Such errors cause  
 .Nm  
 to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.  
 The output databases are corrupt and should be removed .  
 .El  
 .Sh SEE ALSO  .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc 1  .Xr apropos 1 ,
 .Sh AUTHORS  .Xr man 1 ,
   .Xr whatis 1 ,
   .Xr man.conf 5
   .Sh HISTORY
   A
   .Nm makewhatis
   utility first appeared in
   .Bx 2 .
   It was rewritten in
   .Xr perl 1
   for
   .Ox 2.7
   and in C for
   .Ox 5.1 .
   .Pp
 The  The
   .Ar dir
   argument first appeared in
   .Nx 1.0 ;
   the options
   .Fl dtu
   in
   .Ox 2.7 ;
   and the options
   .Fl aCvW
   in
   .Ox 5.1 .
   .Sh AUTHORS
   .An -nosplit
   .An Bill Joy
   wrote the original
   .Bx
   .Nm makewhatis
   in February 1979,
   .An Marc Espie
   started the Perl version in 2000,
   and the current version of
 .Nm  .Nm
 utility was written by  was written by
 .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv .  .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
   and
   .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .

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