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6.68.3. Contents of Man-DB

Installed programs: accessdb, apropos (link to whatis), catman, lexgrog, man, mandb, manpath, and whatis

Installed libraries: libman.so and libmandb.so (both in /usr/lib/man-db)

Installed directories: /usr/lib/man-db, /usr/libexec/man-db, and /usr/share/doc/man-db-2.8.6.1


Short Descriptions

accessdb Dumps the whatis database contents in human-readable form


apropos Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string

catman Creates or updates the pre-formatted manual pages

lexgrog Displays one-line summary information about a given manual page

man Formats and displays the requested manual page

mandb Creates or updates the whatis database

manpath Displays the contents of $MANPATH or (if $MANPATH is not set) a suitable search path based on the settings in man.conf and the user's environment

whatis Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a separate word

libman Contains run-time support for man

libmandb Contains run-time support for man


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