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Erick Flores Rivas
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how active the man -k (commnad )

how active the man -k (commnad )
i can't active the option at my OS
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Steven Schweda
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Re: how active the man -k (commnad )

"I can't" is not a useful problem
description. It does not say what you did.
It does not say what happened when you did
it. Showing actual commands with their
actual output is often more helpful than
vague descriptions and interpretations.

> [...] my OS

Which is WHAT? "uname -a"?

man catman

Look for "-w".
James R. Ferguson
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: how active the man -k (commnad )

Hi:

You can do:

# catman -m

...which creates the 'whatis' database for keyword searches and merges new, unformatted manpage information into it. In addition, manpage formatting is done. This gives faster access at the expense of a bit more storage (but then disk is cheap).

Regards!

...JRF...
Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: how active the man -k (commnad )

You might also learn something from

man man

(which leads to "catman").
SoorajCleris
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Re: how active the man -k (commnad )

Hi ,

If you want to run #man -k
you may need to create the index first. For that you need to run

#catman -w

Regards,
Sooraj
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity" - Dennis Ritchie
SoorajCleris
Honored Contributor

Re: how active the man -k (commnad )

For example

after you do catman -w you can see like this.
else you will get an error like "whatis" not found.

# man -k model
tpsshowmodel ("1m") - display X Printer model information
CIMUtil(1) - provides a set of CIM (Common Information Model) client operations
model(1) - print hardware model information
model(4) - HP-UX machine identification
psmsgen(1M) - model script configuration utility for psfontpf
[rx26-156]/etc
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity" - Dennis Ritchie
Bill Hassell
Honored Contributor

Re: how active the man -k (commnad )

You have to create the whatis database using catman. You can run it one time to create the file so man -k will work. However, many applications and programs provide man pages but do not install them in the usual locations. But most tools will update /etc/MANPATH, so to gather text from all the man pages, and to keep them up to date. put this in root's crontab:

# Update whatis (man -k) database twice a month
3 2 1,15 * * MANPATH=$(cat /etc/MANPATH) /usr/sbin/catman -m


Bill Hassell, sysadmin