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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd December 3, 2005
28.Dt CATMAN 1
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm catman
32.Nd "preformat man pages"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Op Fl fLnrv
36.Op Ar directories ...
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40utility preformats all the man pages in
41.Ar directories
42using the
43.Nm nroff Fl man
44command.
45Directories may be separated by colons instead of spaces.
46If no
47.Ar directories
48are specified, the contents of the
49.Ev MANPATH
50environment variable is used, or if that is not set, the default directory
51.Pa /usr/share/man
52is processed.
53.Pp
54The options are as follows:
55.Bl -tag -width indent
56.It Fl f
57Force all man pages to be reformatted even if the corresponding cat page
58is newer.
59.It Fl L
60Process only localized subdirectories corresponding to the locale specified
61in the standard environment variables.
62.It Fl n
63Print out what would be done instead of performing any formatting.
64.It Fl r
65Scan for and remove
66.Dq junk
67files that are neither man pages nor their
68corresponding formatted cat pages.
69.It Fl v
70Cause
71.Nm
72to be more verbose about what it is doing.
73.El
74.Sh ENVIRONMENT
75.Bl -tag -width ".Ev MANPATH"
76.It Ev LC_ALL , LC_CTYPE , LANG
77These variables control what subdirectories will be processed if the
78.Fl L
79option is used.
80.It Ev MACHINE
81If set, overrides the current machine type when searching for
82machine specific man page subdirectories.
83.It Ev MACHINE_ARCH
84If set, overrides the current architecture when searching for
85architecture specific man page subdirectories.
86.It Ev MANPATH
87Determines the set of directories to be processed if none are given on
88the command line.
89.El
90.Sh FILES
91.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/man" -compact
92.It Pa /usr/share/man
93Default directory to process if the
94.Ev MANPATH
95environment variable is not set.
96.El
97.Sh EXIT STATUS
98.Ex -std
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr makewhatis 1 ,
101.Xr man 1 ,
102.Xr nroff 1
103.Sh HISTORY
104A previous version of the
105.Nm
106command appeared in
107.Fx 2.1 .
108.Sh AUTHORS
109.An John Rochester
110