accessdb(8) — Linux manual page

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NAME top

       accessdb - dumps the content of a man-db database in a human
       readable format

SYNOPSIS top

       /usr/sbin/accessdb [-d?V] [<index-file>]

DESCRIPTION top

       accessdb will output the data contained within a man-db database
       in a human readable form.  By default, it will dump the data from
       /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.

OPTIONS top

       -d, --debug
              Print debugging information.

       -?, --help
              Print a help message and exit.

       --usage
              Print a short usage message and exit.

       -V, --version
              Display version information.

AUTHOR top

       Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
       Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
       Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).

BUGS top

       https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
       https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

COLOPHON top

       This page is part of the man-db (manual pager suite) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this
       manual page, send it to man-db-devel@nongnu.org.  This page was
       obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db⟩ on 2025-08-11.  (At that
       time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
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