Linux "ptx" Command Line Options and Examples

produce a permuted index of file contents

Output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input files. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

Usage:

ptx [OPTION]... [INPUT]... (without -G) ptx -G [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

Command Line Options:

-A

output automatically generated references


                            ptx -A ...

-G

behave more like System V 'ptx'


                            ptx -G ...

-F

use STRING for flagging line truncations. The default is '/'


                            ptx -F ...

-M

macro name to use instead of 'xx'


                            ptx -M ...

-O

generate output as roff directives


                            ptx -O ...

-R

put references at right, not counted in -w


                            ptx -R ...

-S

for end of lines or end of sentences


                            ptx -S ...

-T

generate output as TeX directives


                            ptx -T ...

-W

use REGEXP to match each keyword


                            ptx -W ...

-b

word break characters in this FILE


                            ptx -b ...

-f

fold lower case to upper case for sorting


                            ptx -f ...

-g

gap size in columns between output fields


                            ptx -g ...

-i

read ignore word list from FILE


                            ptx -i ...

-o

read only word list from this FILE


                            ptx -o ...

-r

first field of each line is a reference


                            ptx -r ...

-t

--typeset-mode - not implemented -


                            ptx -t ...

-w

output width in columns, reference excluded


                            ptx -w ...

--help

display this help and exit


                            ptx --help ...

--version

output version information and exitAUTHORWritten by F. Pinard.REPORTING BUGSGNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>Report ptx translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>COPYRIGHTCopyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent per‐mitted by law.


                            ptx --version ...