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.\" Man page for accessdb
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org
.\"
.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
.\" License as specified in the file docs/COPYING.GPLv2 that comes with the
.\" man-db distribution.
.\"
.\" Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:18:36 +0200
.\"
.pc
.TH ACCESSDB 8 "%date%" "%version%" "Manual pager utils"
.SH NAME
accessdb \- dumps the content of a man-db database in a human readable
format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /usr/sbin/accessdb
.RB [\| \-d?V \|]
.RI [ <index-file> ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B accessdb
will output the data contained within a man-db database in a
human readable form.
By default, it will dump the data from
.B /var/cache/man/index.<db-type>,
where <db-type> is dependent on the database library in use.

Supplying an argument to accessdb will override this default.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-d ", " \-\-debug
Print debugging information.
.TP
.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-? ", " \-\-help
Print a help message and exit.
.TP
.if !'po4a'hide' .B \-\-usage
Print a short usage message and exit.
.TP
.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-V ", " \-\-version
Display version information.
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
.if !'po4a'hide' Wilf.\& (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
.if !'po4a'hide' Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
.if !'po4a'hide' Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
.fi
.SH BUGS
.if !'po4a'hide' https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
.br
.if !'po4a'hide' https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db