How to update man keywords database

January 16, 2013 at 07:40 AM | categories: Centos, Ubuntu, Sysadmin, Unix, RHEL, Linux, Tips | View Comments

Man keywords database allow you to search for man pages using keywords, the database needs to be updated when ever man pages are added or removed.

This is how you do it for various *nix types.

Debian/Ubuntu/SUSE

mandb

RHEL/CENTOS/SL/Fedora

makewhatis

AIX/Solaris/HP-UX

catman -w
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