ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

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

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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