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.Dd October 31, 1997 .Dt GETNAME 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm getNAME .Nd "get NAME sections from manual source for whatis/apropos data base" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl itvw .Ar path Op Ar path ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility looks inside manual page sources to find the name of the page. It can be used to create a table of contents, report the style of manual, or to create an introductory manual page. By default, .Nm returns data for use in an .Xr apropos 1 database. .Nm is designed to be called from manual grovelling tools, not to be used directly.
p Historically, .Xr makewhatis 8 used to use .Nm to get manpage names, but that's no longer the case. .Sh OPTIONS The following options are available: l -tag -width Ds t Fl i Print information useful in creating an introduction manual. See .Xr intro 1 , .Xr intro 2 , etc. for examples. t Fl t Print information useful for creating a table of contents. t Fl v Complain about incorrectly formatted man pages. t Fl w Print information whether the manpage uses traditional man
q Dq OLD , new mandoc
q Dq NEW , or some unknown
q Dq UNKNOWN macros. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr man 1 , .Xr catman 8 , .Xr makewhatis 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm command first appeared in x 2.0 . .Sh BUGS It would be nice if .Nm could deal with compressed and/or preformatted manual pages. Looks for .S[Hh] NAME for consistency checking, but that breaks man pages in other languages.