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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-man-db" role="wrap">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="man-db.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect1info condition="script">
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| 12 | <productname>man-db</productname>
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| 13 | <productnumber>&man-db-version;</productnumber>
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| 14 | <address>&man-db-url;</address>
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| 15 | </sect1info>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <title>Man-DB-&man-db-version;</title>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db">
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| 20 | <primary sortas="a-Man-DB">Man-DB</primary>
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| 21 | </indexterm>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 24 | <title/>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>The Man-DB package contains programs for finding and viewing man
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| 27 | pages.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <segmentedlist>
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| 30 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 31 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <seglistitem>
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| 34 | <seg>&man-db-ch6-sbu;</seg>
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| 35 | <seg>&man-db-ch6-du;</seg>
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| 36 | </seglistitem>
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| 37 | </segmentedlist>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | </sect2>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 42 | <title>Installation of Man-DB</title>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>Prepare Man-DB for compilation:</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput remap="configure">libpipeline_CFLAGS='' libpipeline_LIBS='-lpipeline' \
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| 47 | ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
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| 48 | --docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db-&man-db-version; --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 49 | --disable-setuid --with-browser=/usr/bin/lynx \
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| 50 | --with-vgrind=/usr/bin/vgrind --with-grap=/usr/bin/grap</userinput></screen>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <variablelist>
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| 53 | <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <varlistentry>
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| 56 | <term><parameter>--disable-setuid</parameter></term>
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| 57 | <listitem>
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| 58 | <para>This disables making the <command>man</command> program setuid
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| 59 | to user <systemitem class="username">man</systemitem>.</para>
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| 60 | </listitem>
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| 61 | </varlistentry>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <varlistentry>
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| 64 | <term><parameter>--with-...</parameter></term>
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| 65 | <listitem>
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| 66 | <para>These three parameters are used to set some default programs.
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| 67 | <command>lynx</command> is a text-based web browser (see
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| 68 | BLFS for installation instructions), <command>vgrind</command>
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| 69 | converts program sources to Groff input, and <command>grap</command>
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| 70 | is useful for typesetting graphs in Groff documents. The
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| 71 | <command>vgrind</command> and <command>grap</command> programs are
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| 72 | not normally needed for viewing manual pages. They are not part of
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| 73 | LFS or BLFS, but you should be able to install them yourself after
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| 74 | finishing LFS if you wish to do so.</para>
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| 75 | </listitem>
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| 76 | </varlistentry>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | </variablelist>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | </sect2>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <sect2>
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| 95 | <title>Non-English Manual Pages in LFS</title>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <para>The following table shows the character set that Man-DB assumes
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| 98 | manual pages installed under
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| 99 | <filename class="directory">/usr/share/man/<ll></filename> will be
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| 100 | encoded with. In addition to this, Man-DB correctly determines if manual
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| 101 | pages installed in that directory are UTF-8 encoded.</para>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <!-- Origin: man-db-2.5.9/lib/encodings.c -->
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| 104 | <table>
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| 105 | <title>Expected character encoding of legacy 8-bit manual pages</title>
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| 106 | <?dbfo table-width="6in" ?>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <tgroup cols="4">
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <colspec colnum="1" colwidth="1.5in"/>
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| 111 | <colspec colnum="2" colwidth="1in"/>
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| 112 | <colspec colnum="3" colwidth="2.5in"/>
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| 113 | <colspec colnum="4" colwidth="1in"/>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | <thead>
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| 116 | <row>
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| 117 | <entry>Language (code)</entry>
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| 118 | <entry>Encoding</entry>
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| 119 | <entry>Language (code)</entry>
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| 120 | <entry>Encoding</entry>
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| 121 | </row>
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| 122 | </thead>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <tbody>
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| 125 | <row>
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| 126 | <entry>Danish (da)</entry>
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| 127 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 128 | <entry>Croatian (hr)</entry>
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| 129 | <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
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| 130 | </row>
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| 131 | <row>
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| 132 | <entry>German (de)</entry>
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| 133 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 134 | <entry>Hungarian (hu)</entry>
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| 135 | <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
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| 136 | </row>
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| 137 | <row>
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| 138 | <entry>English (en)</entry>
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| 139 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 140 | <entry>Japanese (ja)</entry>
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| 141 | <entry>EUC-JP</entry>
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| 142 | </row>
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| 143 | <row>
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| 144 | <entry>Spanish (es)</entry>
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| 145 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 146 | <entry>Korean (ko)</entry>
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| 147 | <entry>EUC-KR</entry>
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| 148 | </row>
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| 149 | <row>
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| 150 | <entry>Estonian (et)</entry>
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| 151 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 152 | <entry>Lithuanian (lt)</entry>
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| 153 | <entry>ISO-8859-13</entry>
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| 154 | </row>
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| 155 | <row>
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| 156 | <entry>Finnish (fi)</entry>
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| 157 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 158 | <entry>Latvian (lv)</entry>
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| 159 | <entry>ISO-8859-13</entry>
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| 160 | </row>
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| 161 | <row>
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| 162 | <entry>French (fr)</entry>
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| 163 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 164 | <entry>Macedonian (mk)</entry>
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| 165 | <entry>ISO-8859-5</entry>
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| 166 | </row>
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| 167 | <row>
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| 168 | <entry>Irish (ga)</entry>
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| 169 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 170 | <entry>Polish (pl)</entry>
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| 171 | <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
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| 172 | </row>
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| 173 | <row>
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| 174 | <entry>Galician (gl)</entry>
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| 175 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 176 | <entry>Romanian (ro)</entry>
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| 177 | <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
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| 178 | </row>
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| 179 | <row>
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| 180 | <entry>Indonesian (id)</entry>
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| 181 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 182 | <entry>Russian (ru)</entry>
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| 183 | <entry>KOI8-R</entry>
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| 184 | </row>
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| 185 | <row>
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| 186 | <entry>Icelandic (is)</entry>
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| 187 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 188 | <entry>Slovak (sk)</entry>
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| 189 | <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
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| 190 | </row>
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| 191 | <row>
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| 192 | <entry>Italian (it)</entry>
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| 193 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 194 | <entry>Slovenian (sl)</entry>
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| 195 | <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
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| 196 | </row>
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| 197 | <row>
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| 198 | <entry>Norwegian Bokmal (nb)</entry>
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| 199 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 200 | <entry>Serbian Latin (sr@latin)</entry>
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| 201 | <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
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| 202 | </row>
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| 203 | <row>
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| 204 | <entry>Dutch (nl)</entry>
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| 205 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 206 | <entry>Serbian (sr)</entry>
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| 207 | <entry>ISO-8859-5</entry>
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| 208 | </row>
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| 209 | <row>
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| 210 | <entry>Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)</entry>
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| 211 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 212 | <entry>Turkish (tr)</entry>
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| 213 | <entry>ISO-8859-9</entry>
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| 214 | </row>
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| 215 | <row>
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| 216 | <entry>Norwegian (no)</entry>
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| 217 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 218 | <entry>Ukrainian (uk)</entry>
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| 219 | <entry>KOI8-U</entry>
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| 220 | </row>
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| 221 | <row>
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| 222 | <entry>Portuguese (pt)</entry>
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| 223 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 224 | <entry>Vietnamese (vi)</entry>
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| 225 | <entry>TCVN5712-1</entry>
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| 226 | </row>
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| 227 | <row>
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| 228 | <entry>Swedish (sv)</entry>
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| 229 | <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
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| 230 | <entry>Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)</entry>
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| 231 | <entry>GBK</entry>
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| 232 | </row>
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| 233 | <row>
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| 234 | <entry>Belarusian (be)</entry>
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| 235 | <entry>CP1251</entry>
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| 236 | <entry>Simplified Chinese, Singapore (zh_SG)</entry>
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| 237 | <entry>GBK</entry>
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| 238 | </row>
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| 239 | <row>
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| 240 | <entry>Bulgarian (bg)</entry>
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| 241 | <entry>CP1251</entry>
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| 242 | <entry>Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong (zh_HK)</entry>
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| 243 | <entry>BIG5HKSCS</entry>
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| 244 | </row>
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| 245 | <row>
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| 246 | <entry>Czech (cs)</entry>
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| 247 | <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
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| 248 | <entry>Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)</entry>
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| 249 | <entry>BIG5</entry>
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| 250 | </row>
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| 251 | <row>
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| 252 | <entry>Greek (el)</entry>
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| 253 | <entry>ISO-8859-7</entry>
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| 254 | <entry></entry>
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| 255 | <entry></entry>
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| 256 | </row>
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| 257 |
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| 258 | </tbody>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | </tgroup>
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| 261 |
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| 262 | </table>
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| 263 |
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| 264 | <note>
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| 265 | <para>Manual pages in languages not in the list are not supported.</para>
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| 266 | </note>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | </sect2>
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| 269 |
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| 270 | <sect2 id="contents-man-db" role="content">
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| 271 | <title>Contents of Man-DB</title>
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| 272 |
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| 273 | <segmentedlist>
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| 274 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 275 | <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
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| 276 |
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| 277 | <seglistitem>
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| 278 | <seg>accessdb, apropos (link to whatis), catman, lexgrog, man, mandb,
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| 279 | manpath, whatis, and zsoelim</seg>
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| 280 | <seg>/usr/lib/man-db, /usr/share/doc/man-db</seg>
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| 281 | </seglistitem>
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| 282 | </segmentedlist>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | <variablelist>
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| 285 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 286 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 287 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 288 |
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| 289 | <varlistentry id="accessdb">
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| 290 | <term><command>accessdb</command></term>
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| 291 | <listitem>
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| 292 | <para>Dumps the <command>whatis</command> database contents in
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| 293 | human-readable form</para>
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| 294 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db accessdb">
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| 295 | <primary sortas="b-accessdb">accessdb</primary>
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| 296 | </indexterm>
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| 297 | </listitem>
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| 298 | </varlistentry>
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| 299 |
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| 300 | <varlistentry id="apropos">
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| 301 | <term><command>apropos</command></term>
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| 302 | <listitem>
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| 303 | <para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays
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| 304 | the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given
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| 305 | string</para>
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| 306 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db apropos">
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| 307 | <primary sortas="b-apropos">apropos</primary>
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| 308 | </indexterm>
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| 309 | </listitem>
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| 310 | </varlistentry>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | <varlistentry id="catman">
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| 313 | <term><command>catman</command></term>
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| 314 | <listitem>
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| 315 | <para>Creates or updates the pre-formatted manual pages</para>
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| 316 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db catman">
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| 317 | <primary sortas="b-catman">catman</primary>
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| 318 | </indexterm>
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| 319 | </listitem>
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| 320 | </varlistentry>
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| 321 |
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| 322 | <varlistentry id="lexgrog">
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| 323 | <term><command>lexgrog</command></term>
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| 324 | <listitem>
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| 325 | <para>Displays one-line summary information about a given manual
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| 326 | page</para>
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| 327 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db lexgrog">
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| 328 | <primary sortas="b-lexgrog">lexgrog</primary>
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| 329 | </indexterm>
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| 330 | </listitem>
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| 331 | </varlistentry>
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| 332 |
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| 333 | <varlistentry id="man">
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| 334 | <term><command>man</command></term>
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| 335 | <listitem>
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| 336 | <para>Formats and displays the requested manual page</para>
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| 337 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db man">
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| 338 | <primary sortas="b-man">man</primary>
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| 339 | </indexterm>
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| 340 | </listitem>
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| 341 | </varlistentry>
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| 342 |
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| 343 | <varlistentry id="mandb">
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| 344 | <term><command>mandb</command></term>
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| 345 | <listitem>
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| 346 | <para>Creates or updates the <command>whatis</command> database</para>
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| 347 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db mandb">
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| 348 | <primary sortas="b-mandb">mandb</primary>
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| 349 | </indexterm>
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| 350 | </listitem>
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| 351 | </varlistentry>
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| 352 |
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| 353 | <varlistentry id="manpath">
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| 354 | <term><command>manpath</command></term>
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| 355 | <listitem>
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| 356 | <para>Displays the contents of $MANPATH or (if $MANPATH is not set)
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| 357 | a suitable search path based on the settings in man.conf and the
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| 358 | user's environment</para>
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| 359 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db manpath">
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| 360 | <primary sortas="b-manpath">manpath</primary>
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| 361 | </indexterm>
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| 362 | </listitem>
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| 363 | </varlistentry>
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| 364 |
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| 365 | <varlistentry id="whatis">
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| 366 | <term><command>whatis</command></term>
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| 367 | <listitem>
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| 368 | <para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays
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| 369 | the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given
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| 370 | keyword as a separate word</para>
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| 371 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db whatis">
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| 372 | <primary sortas="b-whatis">whatis</primary>
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| 373 | </indexterm>
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| 374 | </listitem>
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| 375 | </varlistentry>
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| 376 |
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| 377 | <varlistentry id="zsoelim">
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| 378 | <term><command>zsoelim</command></term>
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| 379 | <listitem>
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| 380 | <para>Reads files and replaces lines of the form <emphasis>.so
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| 381 | file</emphasis> by the contents of the mentioned
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| 382 | <emphasis>file</emphasis></para>
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| 383 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db zsoelim">
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| 384 | <primary sortas="b-zsoelim">zsoelim</primary>
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| 385 | </indexterm>
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| 386 | </listitem>
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| 387 | </varlistentry>
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| 388 |
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| 389 | </variablelist>
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| 390 |
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| 391 | </sect2>
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| 392 |
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| 393 | </sect1>
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