mandb

Manage the pre-formatted manual page database. More information: https://manned.org/mandb.

• 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