manctl(8)

manctl8

Manipulating manual pages

Usage

manctl [-compress] [-uncompress] [-help] path ...

Overview

The manctl utility compress or uncompress manual pages in directory path. If possible, .so's are replaced with hard links.

The following options are available:

-help

Print options and exit.

-compress

Compress uncompressed man pages (eliminating .so's).

-uncompress

Uncompress compressed man pages.

Releases

86 releases since FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE; the text changed 43 times.

  1. 2.1.5–2.1.7.1
  2. 2.2.2
  3. 2.2.5
  4. 2.2.6–2.2.8
  5. 2.2.9
  6. 3.0–3.2
  7. 3.3–3.5.1
  8. 4.0–4.2
  9. 4.3
  10. 4.4–4.7
  11. 4.8–4.11
  12. 5.0–6.3
  13. 6.4
  14. 7.0
  15. 7.1
  16. 7.2
  17. 7.3
  18. 7.4
  19. 8.0
  20. 8.1
  21. 8.2
  22. 8.3
  23. 8.4
  24. 9.0
  25. 9.1
  26. 9.2
  27. 9.3
  28. 10.0
  29. 10.1
  30. 10.2
  31. 10.3
  32. 10.4
  33. 11.0
  34. 11.1
  35. 11.2
  36. 11.3
  37. 11.4
  38. 12.0
  39. 12.1
  40. 12.2
  41. 12.3
  42. 12.4
  43. 13.0–13.2
  44. 13.3–16.0

-purge until FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.