PTX(1)

🎀 PTX(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the ptx page from the General Commands Manual, and it is giving "make a permuted index" main character energy. The vibe is: output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input files. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Default is '-F /'. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ptx — Produce a permuted index of file contents. Output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input files. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Default is '-F /'. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ptx [OPTION]... [INPUT]...
ptx -G [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Produce a permuted index of file contents — literally output a permuted index, including context, of the words in the input files. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Default is '-F /'. 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -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 — generate output as roff directives
• -T — generate output as TeX 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
• -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 — change the default width from 72 to 100
• -w, --width <NUMBER> — output width in columns, reference excluded
• -h, --help — Print help
• -V, --version — Print version

Reminder bestie: mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. No skipping. 😤

🌈 VERSION 🌈

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

and that's the whole permuted-index slay 💖 This page is from v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 and dated 2026-09-17 — mwah, bestie 🎀🦋