ptx(1)

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.

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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.