July 30, 1993 CATMAN 8

### NAME

catman - format cat pages from man pages

### SYNOPSIS

catman [-knpsw] [-m directory] [sections] catman [-knpsw] [-M directory] [sections]

### DESCRIPTION

catman creates formatted versions of the on-line manual pages from their nroff(1) source. Manual pages whose formatted versions are missing or out of date are regenerated. If manual pages are regenerated, catman also regenerates the ```whatis` database.

The optional sections argument is one word, and contains the section numbers of all the sections to be checked. For example, if sections is ``13f8'', the manual pages in sections 1, 3f, and 8 will be checked and regenerated. If no sections argument is provided, catman will try to operate on all of the known manual sections.

The options are as follows:

-k
  Ignore errors from nroff when building manpages.

-n
  Do not create the ```whatis` database.

-p
  Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually execute them.

-s
  Perform work silently; do not echo commands as they are executed. This flag is ignored if -p is specified.

-w
  Only create the ```whatis` database.

-m directory
  Add directory to the set of directories to be updated.

-M directory
  Update manual pages in directory.

### SEE ALSO

apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1)

### BUGS

Currently does not handle hard links.