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MAN Solaris - PTX (1)

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ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents

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

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

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 ‘ptx’
-F, --flag-truncation=STRING
	use STRING for flagging line truncations
-M, --macro-name=STRING
	macro name to use instead of ‘xx’
-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

With no FILE or if FILE is -, read Standard Input. ‘-F /’ by default.

Written by F. Pinard.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

The full documentation for ptx is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ptx programs are properly installed at your site, the command

	info ptx

should give you access to the complete manual.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWgnu-coreutils
Interface Stability	Uncommitted

Source for GNU coreutils is available on http://opensolaris.org.

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