index UNIX manuals NAME makewhatis — index UNIX manuals SYNOPSIS makewhatis [ -aDnpQ ] [ -T utf8 ] [ -C file ] makewhatis [......file for man DESCRIPTION This is the configuration file for the man(1) , apropos(1) , and makewhatis(8) utilities. Its presence, and all directives, are optional. This file is a…...... DESCRIPTION The apropos and whatis utilities query manual page databases generated by makewhatis(8) , evaluating expression for each file in each database. By default, they …...... DESCRIPTION The apropos and whatis utilities query manual page databases generated by makewhatis(8) , evaluating expression for each file in each database. By default, they …...ains its own mandoc.db file; see FILES for examples. Such database files are generated by makewhatis(8) and used by man(1) , apropos(1) and whatis(1) . The file format uses thre…...ame directory, only the unformatted version is used. The database is kept up to date with makewhatis(8) , which is run by the weekly(8) maintenance script. Guidelines for writin…...s -W all . EXAMPLES To page manuals to the terminal: $ mandoc -l mandoc.1 man.1 apropos.1 makewhatis.8 To produce HTML manuals with /usr/share/misc/mandoc.css as the style-sheet…