The catman.pl
perl script is used to create compressed,
formatted man pages from man pages in nroff
format.
catman
options
The catman
perl script supports the following options.
catman
invocation
Catman
preformats and compresses man pages.
Synopsis:
catman [-h|-help] [-f|-force] [-p|-print] [-r|remove] [-v|-verbose] [directories ...]
Typical usage:
$ catman
Format man pages in `/usr/share/man' (default) if neccessary.
$ catman $MANPATH
Format all your man pages if neccessary.
$ catman -f /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/local/man/manl
Force reformatting of all man pages in `/usr/local/man/man1' and `/usr/local/man/manl'.
$ catman -p /usr/X11/man
Show only.
$ catman /gg/man
Format all man pages in `/GG/man'.
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