ACCESSDB(8)

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💖 ACCESSDB(8) ✨ Manual pager utils ✨

🌸 NAME

okay so the name is accessdb 💅 and its whole job is to dump the content of a man-db database in a human readable format 📖🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/accessdb [-d?V] [<index-file>]

✨ DESCRIPTION

bestie, accessdb will output all the data inside a man-db database in a human readable form 🧚 lowkey the best way to peek at what's actually in there 👀

by default it grabs the data from /var/cache/man/index.<db-type>, where <db-type> depends on which database library is in use 🎀

if you pass an argument to accessdb, it overrides that default path, so you can point it at a different index file 🔥

💜 OPTIONS

  • -d, --debug — prints debugging information 🙈
  • -?, --help — prints a help message and exits 💅
  • --usage — prints a short usage message and exits 🍓
  • -V, --version — displays version information 🌈

👑 AUTHOR

the iconic creators are:

  • Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) 🫶
  • Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org) 💖
  • Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) ✨

🐛 BUGS

if something's being extra, you can report it here 😭

ok that's the whole tea, bestie 🫶💅 this page is version 2.13.1 from 2025-05-02 🌸 stay iconic and keep those databases clean ✨🦋

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