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ACCESSDB

Section: Manual pager utils (8)
Updated: 2023-01-08
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NAME

accessdb - dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format  

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/accessdb [-d?V] [<index-file>]  

DESCRIPTION

accessdb will output the data contained within a man-db database in a human readable form. By default, it will dump the data from /var/cache/man/index.<db-type>, where <db-type> is dependent on the database library in use.

Supplying an argument to accessdb will override this default.  

OPTIONS

-d, --debug
Print debugging information.
-?, --help
Print a help message and exit.
--usage
Print a short usage message and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information.
 

AUTHOR

Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
 

BUGS

https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
AUTHOR
BUGS
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