fc-scan (1) Linux Manual Page

fc-scan – scan font files or directories

Synopsis

fc-scan [ -Vh ]

 [  [ -f format ]  [ –format format ]  ]  [ –version ]  [ –help ]  file…

Description

fc-scan scans file(s) recursively and prints out font pattern for each face found.

Options

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-‘). A summary of options is included below.

-f

Format output according to the format specifier format.

-V

Show version of the program and exit.

-h

Show summary of options.

file

Scan file recursively for font faces.

Return Codes

fc-scan returns error code 0 if at least one font was found or 1 otherwise.

See Also

fc-query(1) FcFileScan(3) FcDirScan(3) FcPatternFormat(3) fc-cat(1) fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1) fc-pattern(1)

The fontconfig user’s guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

Author

This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad [at] behdad.org>.