ptx (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

ptx – produce a permuted index of file contents

SYNOPSIS

ptx [,OPTION/]… [,INPUT/]… ,(without -G)/
ptx ,-G /[,OPTION/]… [,INPUT /[,OUTPUT/]]

DESCRIPTION

Output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input files.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-A, –auto-reference

output automatically generated references

-G, –traditional

behave more like System V ‘ptx’

-F, –flag-truncation=,STRING/

use STRING for flagging line truncations. The default is ‘/’

-M, –macro-name=,STRING/

macro name to use instead of ‘xx’

-O, –format=,roff/

generate output as roff directives

-R, –right-side-refs

put references at right, not counted in -w

-S, –sentence-regexp=,REGEXP/

for end of lines or end of sentences

-T, –format=,tex/

generate output as TeX directives

-W, –word-regexp=,REGEXP/

use REGEXP to match each keyword

-b, –break-file=,FILE/

word break characters in this FILE

-f, –ignore-case

fold lower case to upper case for sorting

-g, –gap-size=,NUMBER/

gap size in columns between output fields

-i, –ignore-file=,FILE/

read ignore word list from FILE

-o, –only-file=,FILE/

read only word list from this FILE

-r, –references

first field of each line is a reference

-t, –typeset-mode – not implemented –

-w, –width=,NUMBER/

output width in columns, reference excluded

–help

display this help and exit

–version

output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by F. Pinard.

REPORTING BUGS

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx>
or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) ptx invocation’

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