NAME

makewhatis − remake the data base for the whatis and apropos commands

SYNOPSIS

makewhatis

DESCRIPTION

Makewhatis remakes the data base for the whatis and apropos commands from the manual sections in /usr/man/*.  It uses getNAME(UCB) to extract relevant text from each manual entry and then rearranges and sorts this output. Manuals sections may be in either the old  (version 6) or version 7 manual formats.

FILES

/usr/lib/whatisconstructed data base

SEE ALSO

getNAME(UCB)

BUGS

7th Edition  —  2/24/79