MAKEWHATIS(8)           OpenBSD System Manager's Manual          MAKEWHATIS(8)

NAME
     makewhatis - create a whatis.db database

SYNOPSIS
     makewhatis [manpath ...]

DESCRIPTION
     makewhatis strips the NAME lines from compiled or raw man(1) pages and
     creates a whatis.db database for use in apropos(1) or with man(1)'s  -k
     option.  If manpath is unspecified, makewhatis by default creates
     databases for each directory prefixed by the _whatdb keyword in
     /etc/man.conf. Man pages compressed with compress(1) and gzip(1) are un-
     compressed before processing, unformatted man pages will be processed by
     getNAME(8).

SEE ALSO
     man(1),  man.conf(5),  getNAME(8)

OpenBSD 2.6                    October 17, 1997                              1
