Linux "catman" Command Line Options and Examples

create or update the pre-formatted manual pages

catman is used to create an up to date set of pre-formatted manual pages known as cat pages. Cat pages are generally much faster to display than the original manual pages, but require extra storage space. The decision to support cat pages is that of the local administrator, who must provide suitable directories to contain them.

Usage:

catman [-d?V] [-M path] [-C file] [section] ...

Related Commands

Command Line Options:

-d

Print debugging information.


                            catman -d ...

-M

Specify an alternate colon-delimited manual page hierarchy search path. By default, this is all paths indicated as systemhierarchies in the man-db configuration file.


                            catman -M ...

-C

Use this user configuration file rather than the default of ~/.manpath.


                            catman -C ...

Print a help message and exit.


                            catman -? ...

--usage

Print a short usage message and exit.


                            catman --usage ...

-V

Display version information.ENVIRONMENTMANSECTIf $MANSECT is set, its value is a colon-delimited list of sections and it is used to determine which manual sections tosearch and in what order. The default is "1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 3am 5 4 9 6 7", unless overridden by the SECTIONdirective in /etc/manpath.config.MANPATHIf $MANPATH is set, its value is interpreted as the colon-delimited manual page hierarchy search path to use.FILES/etc/manpath.configman-db configuration file./usr/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)A traditional global index database cache./var/catman/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)An alternate or FSSTND compliant global index database cache.


                            catman -V ...