NAME¶

ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents

SYNOPSIS¶

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

DESCRIPTION¶

Output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input files. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-A, --auto-reference

output automatically generated references

-G, --traditional

behave more like System V 'ptx'

-F, --flag-truncation=STRING

use STRING for flagging line truncations

-M, --macro-name=STRING

macro name to use instead of 'xx'

-O, --format=roff

generate output as roff directives

-R, --right-side-refs

put references at right, not counted in -w

-S, --sentence-regexp=REGEXP

for end of lines or end of sentences

-T, --format=tex

generate output as TeX directives

-W, --word-regexp=REGEXP

use REGEXP to match each keyword

-b, --break-file=FILE

word break characters in this FILE

-f, --ignore-case

fold lower case to upper case for sorting

-g, --gap-size=NUMBER

gap size in columns between output fields

-i, --ignore-file=FILE

read ignore word list from FILE

-o, --only-file=FILE

read only word list from this FILE

-r, --references

first field of each line is a reference

-w, --width=NUMBER

output width in columns, reference excluded

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Default is '-F /'.

AUTHOR¶

Written by F. Pinard.

REPORTING BUGS¶

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report ptx translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2014 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 permitted by law.

SEE ALSO¶

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ptx invocation'