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PTX(1) | User Commands | PTX(1) |
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 'ptx'
- -F, --flag-truncation=STRING
- use STRING for flagging line truncations. The default is '/'
- -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
AUTHOR¶
Written by F. Pinard.
REPORTING BUGS¶
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COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO¶
Full documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ptx invocation'
October 2024 | GNU coreutils 9.5 |