Subject: Re: how to make whatis lists using makewhatis.sed?
To: None <buckwild@u.washington.edu>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/12/1995 10:28:53
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 23:59:39 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Mark Steven deSagun Tamola <buckwild@u.washington.edu>

>dear sirs,
>
>sorry for another dumb question, but how do you make a whatis list using 
>the makewhatis.sed file in /usr/share/man?  obviously you have to use 
>sed, maybe with a pipe or something, but i still haven't figured out the 
>correct incantation to make the keyword lists.  i'd like to do this for 
>my local man pages.  how do i do this?

/usr/libexec/makewhatis /usr/share/man

or: cd /usr/src/share/man; make whatdb

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