catman(1M) — ADMINISTRATOR COMMANDS
NAME
catman − create the cat files for the manual
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/catman [ −nptw ] [ −M directory ] [ −T tmac.an ] [ sections ]
DESCRIPTION
The catman commands creates the preformatted versions of the on-line manual from the nroff(1) input files. Each manual page is examined and those whose preformatted versions are missing or out of date are recreated. If any changes are made, catman recreates the whatis database.
If there is one parameter not starting with a ‘−’, it is taken to be a list of manual sections to look in. For example
catman 123
only updates manual sections 1, 2, and 3.
The following options are available:
−n Do not (re)create the whatis database.
−p Print what would be done instead of doing it.
−t Create troffed entries in the appropriate fmt subdirectories instead of nroffing into the cat subdirectories.
−w Only create the whatis database. No manual reformatting is done.
−M Update manual pages located in the specified directory (/usr/share/man by default).
−T Use tmac.an in place of the standard manual page macros.
ENVIRONMENT
TROFF
The name of the formatter to use when the −t flag is given. If not set, ‘troff’ is used.
FILES
/usr/share/man default manual directory location
/usr/share/man/man?/∗.∗ raw (nroff input) manual sections
/usr/share/man/cat?/∗.∗ preformatted nroffed manual pages
/usr/share/man/fmt?/∗.∗ preformatted troffed manual pages
/usr/share/man/whatis whatis database location
/usr/ucblib/makewhatis command script to make whatis database
SEE ALSO
man(1), nroff(1), troff(1), whatis(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
man?/xxx.? (.so’ed from man?/yyy.?): No such file or directory
The file outside the parentheses is missing, and is referred to by the file inside them.
target of .so in man?/xxx.? must be relative to /usr/man
catman only allows references to filenames that are relative to the directory /usr/share/man.
opendir:man?: No such file or directory
A harmless warning message indicating that one of the directories catman normally looks for is missing.
∗.∗: No such file or directory
A harmless warning message indicating catman came across an empty directory.
— BSD Compatibility Package