create or update the manual page index caches NAME mandb - create or update the manual page index caches SYNOPSIS mandb [ -dqsucpt?V ] [ -C file ]......isplay manual page descriptions" $ lexgrog broken.1 broken.1: parse failed WHATIS PARSING mandb (which uses the same code as lexgrog ) parses the NAME section at the top of each…...rom interpreting them. index databases are used during the search, and are updated by the mandb program. Depending on your installation, this may be run by a periodic cron job, …...nd word boundaries in the description. The database searched by apropos is updated by the mandb program. Depending on your installation, this may be run by a periodic cron job, …...alternate or FSSTND compliant global index database cache. SEE ALSO man (1), manpath (5), mandb (8) AUTHOR Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk). Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.o…...er ( nroff or [ tg ] roff with -t ) and executed. Alternatively, if an executable program mandb_nfmt (or mandb_tfmt with -t ) exists in the man tree root, it is executed instead…...ath_element found in the user's $ PATH , manpath_element will be added to the $ MANPATH . MANDB_MAP manpath_element [ catpath_element ] Lines of this form indicate which manpath…