accessdb(8)

accessdb8

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

Usage

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

Overview

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

-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.

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 2.0–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11
  13. 12
  14. 13–Arch

--debug since Debian 8 (Jessie); --help since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --usage since Debian 8 (Jessie); --version since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -? since Debian 8 (Jessie); -V since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -d since Debian 8 (Jessie).

-h until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -v until Debian 4.0 (Etch).

Author

Wilf. ([email protected]).
Fabrizio Polacco ([email protected]).
Colin Watson ([email protected]).

Bugs

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

From man-db 2.13.1-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.