enabling keyword in man

[Shivkumar]

Hi,

How to enable keyword in man on hpux ?

E.g. $man -k pwd

Thanks,
Shiv

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Shiv,
reading:
man man

gives you :
" Before this option can be used, file /usr/share/lib/whatis must exist. /usr/share/lib/whatis can be created by running catman(1M)."

So catman is the answer

[JASH_2]

Shiv,

catman -w will create the catalogue of man pages that you want.

Regards,

JASH

[Ninad_1]

Hi,

You need to use the catman command to create the whatis database. You can create the whatis database by
catman -w [ Any software installations after this which also install man pages should be followed by the catman -m or catman -w command again ]
do a man catman to understand more.

Regards,
Ninad

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv,

You need to use "catman"

#catman -w
stdin: not in compressed format

# man catman reads,

By default, catman searches the man*.Z and man* subdirectories under
the following man directories:
+ /usr/share/man
+ /usr/contrib/man
+ /usr/local/man

If MANPATH is set in the environment, the directories given in MANPATH are checked instead of the default. See environ(5) for a description of the MANPATH environment variable.

-Arun

[Raj D.]

Shiv ,
By defult man -k is enabled.
Further catman can be refered.

Cheers,
Raj.