accessdb - Man Page

dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable format

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/accessdb [-d?V] [<index-file>]

Description

accessdb will output the data contained within a man-db database in a human readable form. By default, it will dump the data from /var/cache/man/index.<db-type>, where <db-type> is dependent on the database library in use.

Supplying an argument to accessdb will override this default.

Options

-d,  --debug

Print debugging information.

-?,  --help

Print a help message and exit.

--usage

Print a short usage message and exit.

-V,  --version

Display version information.

Author

Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).

Bugs

https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

Info

2024-08-29 2.13.0 Manual pager utils