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Section (1) ptx

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Name

ptx — produce a permuted index of file contents

Synopsis

ptx [OPTION...] [INPUT...] (without -G)

ptx −G [OPTION...] [ INPUT [OUTPUT] ]

DESCRIPTION

Output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input files.

With no FILE, or when FILE is −, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

−A, −−auto−reference

output automatically generated references

−G, −−traditional

behave more like System V _zsingle_quotesz_ptx_zsingle_quotesz_

−F, −−flag−truncation=STRING/

use STRING for flagging line truncations. The default is _zsingle_quotesz_/_zsingle_quotesz_

−M, −−macro−name=STRING/

macro name to use instead of _zsingle_quotesz_xx_zsingle_quotesz_

−O, −−format=roff/

generate output as roff directives

−R, −−right−side−refs

put references at right, not counted in −w

−S, −−sentence−regexp=REGEXP/

for end of lines or end of sentences

−T, −−format=tex/

generate output as TeX directives

−W, −−word−regexp=REGEXP/

use REGEXP to match each keyword

−b, −−break−file=FILE/

word break characters in this FILE

−f, −−ignore−case

fold lower case to upper case for sorting

−g, −−gap−size=NUMBER/

gap size in columns between output fields

−i, −−ignore−file=FILE/

read ignore word list from FILE

−o, −−only−file=FILE/

read only word list from this FILE

−r, −−references

first field of each line is a reference

−t, −−typeset−mode − not implemented −

−w, −−width=NUMBER/

output width in columns, reference excluded

−−help

display this help and exit

−−version

output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by F. Pinard.

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