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mandb

Manage the pre-formatted manual page database. More information: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mandb.8.html.

• Purge and process manual pages:
   
  mandb
   
• Update a single entry:
   
  mandb --filename {{path/to/file}}
   
• Create entries from scratch instead of updating:
   
  mandb --create
   
• Only process user databases:
   
  mandb --user-db
   
• Do not purge obsolete entries:
   
  mandb --no-purge
   
• Check the validity of manual pages:
   
  mandb --test