NAME

jmakewhatis —

create Japanese or original (English) whatis database

SYNOPSIS

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.

EXAMPLES

jmakewhatis $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.

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