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accessdb

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

Administration and privileged commands4 optionsman-db 2.13.1-1
/usr/sbin/accessdb [-d?V] [<index-file>]

Options

4
-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.

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.

AUTHOR

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

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