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CATMAN(1) BSD General Commands Manual CATMAN(1) NAME catman -- preformat man pages SYNOPSIS catman [-fnrvL] [directories ...] DESCRIPTION The catman utility preformats all the man pages in directories using the nroff -man command. Directories may be separated by colons instead of spaces. If no directories are specified, the contents of the MANPATH en- vironment variable is used, or if that is not set, the default directory /usr/share/man is processed. The options are as follows: -f Force all man pages to be reformatted even if the corresponding cat page is newer. -L Process only localized subdirectories corresponding to the locale specified in the standard environment variables. -n Print out what would be done instead of performing any format- ting. -r Scan for and remove "junk" files that are neither man pages nor their corresponding formatted cat pages. -v Cause catman to be more verbose about what it is doing. ENVIRONMENT LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG These variables control what subdirectories will be processed if the -L option is used. MANPATH Determines the set of directories to be processed if none are given on the command line. FILES /usr/share/man Default directory to process if the MANPATH environment variable is not set. DIAGNOSTICS The catman utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO man(1), makewhatis(1), nroff(1) HISTORY A previous version of the catman command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1. AUTHORS John Rochester. BSD May 11, 2002 BSD
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