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diff --git a/makewhatis.1 b/makewhatis.1 index 68332858..116a6f51 100644 --- a/makewhatis.1 +++ b/makewhatis.1 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .Nd index UNIX manuals .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm -.Op Fl v +.Op Fl ruv .Op Fl d Ar dir .Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION @@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ or .Xr man 7 .Ux manual format. +.It Fl r +Remove entries. +This will remove the index and keyword references. +If the record is not found, it is ignored. +.It Fl u +Update the record. +This will first remove the record (as in +.Fl r ) +then re-add it. .It Fl v Verbose output. If specified once, prints the name of each indexed file. @@ -50,11 +59,12 @@ If twice, prints keywords for each file. .Pp By default, .Nm -constructs the +constructs a new .Sx Index Database and .Sx Keyword Database in the current working directory. +Existing databases are truncated. .Pp If fatal parse errors are encountered, the offending file is printed to stderr, omitted from the index, and the parse continues with the next @@ -133,6 +143,14 @@ The .Nm utility is .Ud +.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +The time to construct a new database pair grows linearly with the +number of keywords in the input. +However, removing or updating entries with +.Fl r +or +.Fl u , +respectively, grows as a multiple of the index length and input size. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Pa mandoc.db |