mandb

Manage the pre-formatted manual page database.

• Purge and process manual pages:

mandb

• Update a single entry:

mandb --filename {path/to/file}

• Create entries from scratch instead of updating:

mandb --create

• Only process user databases:

mandb --user-db

• Do not purge obsolete entries:

mandb --no-purge

• Check the validity of manual pages:

mandb --test

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