ACCESSDB

Section: Manual pager utils (8)
Updated: 2020-06-22
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NAME

accessdb - 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://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db