.\" Man page for accessdb
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.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org
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.\" man-db distribution.
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.\" Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:18:36 +0200
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.TH ACCESSDB 8 "2022-02-10" "2.10.1" "Manual pager utils"
.SH NAME
accessdb \- dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable
format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /usr/sbin/accessdb
.RB [\| \-d?V \|]
.RI [ <index-file> ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B accessdb
will output the data contained within a man-db database in a
human readable form.
By default, it will dump the data from
.B /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.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-d ", " \-\-debug
Print debugging information.
.TP
.BR \-? ", " \-\-help
Print a help message and exit.
.TP
.B \-\-usage
Print a short usage message and exit.
.TP
.BR \-V ", " \-\-version
Display version information.
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Wilf.\& (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
.fi
.SH BUGS
https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db/-/issues
.br
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db