accessdb (8) - Linux Manuals

accessdb: dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable

NAME

accessdb - dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/accessdb [-d?V] [<index-file>]

DESCRIPTION

accessdb will output the data contained within a man-db database in a human readable form. By default, it will dump the data from /var/cache/man/index.<db-type>, where <db-type> is dependent on the database library in use.

Supplying an argument to accessdb will override this default.

OPTIONS

-d, --debug

Print debugging information.

-?, --help

Print a help message and exit.

--usage

Print a short usage message and exit.

-V, --version

Display version information.

AUTHOR

Wilf. (G.Wilford [at] ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco [at] debian.org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson [at] debian.org).

BUGS

https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db/-/issues
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db