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).